Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging

An accessible introduction to aging integrating social and cognitive neuroscience perspectives.

Angela Gutchess (Author)

9781009354257, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 February 2025

342 pages
23.1 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.67 kg

Fully updated and revised, Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging, 2nd Edition provides an accessible introduction to aging and the brain. Now with full color throughout, it includes over fifty figures illustrating key research findings and anatomical diagrams. Adopting an integrative perspective across domains of psychological function, this edition features expanded coverage of multivariate methods, moral judgments, cognitive reserve, prospective memory, event boundaries, and individual differences related to aging, including sex, race, and culture. Although many declines occur with age, cognitive neuroscience research reveals plasticity and adaptation in the brain as a normal function of aging. With this perspective in mind, the book emphasizes the ways in which neuroscience methods have enriched and changed thinking about aging.

1. Introduction to Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging
2. Brain Mechanisms of Aging
3. Cognition and Aging
4. Memory and Aging
5. Emotion, Decision Making, and Aging
6. Social Cognition and Aging
7. Alzheimer's Disease and Other Disorders with Age
8. Current and Future Directions.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]