Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging

Integrates a neuroscience approach to study aging. In addition to covering standard cognitive functions, it incorporates socioemotional abilities.

Angela Gutchess (Author)

9781107084643, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 January 2019

298 pages, 61 b/w illus. 16 colour illus.
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm, 0.64 kg

'Gutchess masters the textbook challenge of balancing breadth and depth in this accessible, comprehensive, yet succinct, new volume. The reader is immersed in the excitement of human neuroscience approaches to aging that combine behavioral experiments and neural measures to understand what happens in the aging mind and brain. The text will delight instructors to teach and students to learn about the neuroscience of aging, and will be a tremendous asset to the field.' Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, University of Michigan

Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging is an introduction to how aging affects the brain, intended for audiences with some knowledge of psychology, aging, or neuroscience. The book includes figures illustrating brain regions so that extensive familiarity with neuroanatomy is not a pre-requisite. The depth of coverage also makes this book appropriate for those with considerable knowledge about aging. This book adopts an integrative perspective, including topics such as memory, cognition, cognitive training, emotion, and social processes. Topics include consideration of individual differences and the impact of disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's disease) on brain function with age. Although many declines occur with age, cognitive neuroscience research reveals plasticity and adaptation in the brain as a function of normal aging. This book is written with this perspective in mind, emphasizing the ways in which neuroscience methods have enriched and changed thinking about aging.

1. Introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of aging
2. Brain mechanisms of aging
3. Cognition and aging
4. Memory and aging
5. Emotion and aging
6. Social cognition and aging
7. Alzheimer's disease and age-related disorders
8. Current and future directions.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Cognitivism, cognitive theory [JMAQ], Psychology [JM]