Lifespan Cognition

Lifespan Cognition
Author: Ellen Bialystok
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2006
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0195169530

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Aims to create a bridge across cognitive development and cognitive aging. This volume studies the rise and fall of specific cognitive functions, such as attention, executive functioning, memory, working memory, representations, and individual differences to find ways in which the study of development and decline converge on common mechanisms.

Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan

Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan
Author: Gisela Labouvie-Vief
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2015-01-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3319098225

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This book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan. The book proposes a core language by which to describe positive and problematic developmental changes by recourse to a parsimonious set of core principles, such as elevations or declines in tension thresholds and their relation to the waxing and waning of the cognitive system over the life course. It integrates, similarly, the lifelong consequences of the positive or damaging aspects of the social milieu in fostering increases in tension thresholds with their advanced capacity for maintaining equilibrium and warding off stress versus a lowering of tension thresholds with disturbances of equilibrium maintenance and heightened susceptibility to stress and deregulation.

Social Cognition

Social Cognition
Author: Jessica Sommerville
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1315520567

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Social Cognition brings together diverse and timely writings that highlight cutting-edge research and theories on the development of social cognition and social behavior across species and the life span. The volume is organized according to two central themes that address issues of continuity and change both at the phylogenetic and the ontogenetic level. First, it addresses to what extent social cognitive abilities and behaviors are shared across species, versus abilities and capacities that are uniquely human. Second, it covers to what extent social cognitive abilities and behaviors are continuous across periods of development within and across the life span, versus their change with age. This volume offers a fresh perspective on social cognition and behavior, and shows the value of bringing together different disciplines to illuminate our understanding of the origins, mechanisms, functions, and development of the many capacities that have evolved to facilitate and regulate a wide variety of behaviors fine-tuned to group living.

Cognition, Occupation, and Participation Across the Life Span

Cognition, Occupation, and Participation Across the Life Span
Author: Katz Noomi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2018
Genre: Cognition disorders
ISBN: 9781569004005

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The translation of cognitive neuroscience into occupational therapy practice is a required competence that helps practitioners understand human performance and provides best practice in the profession. This comprehensive new edition represents a significant advancement in the knowledge translation of cognition and its theoretical and practical application to occupational therapy practice with children and adults. Chapters, written by leaders in an international field, focus on cognition that is essential to everyday life. Each cognitive model includes a theoretical base; intervention, including evaluation procedures, assessment instruments, and treatment methods; individual and group treatment case studies that illustrate the intervention process; and research supporting the evidence base of the model or parts of it. Chapters feature learning objectives and review questions.

Embodied Cognition over the Lifespan and in Applied Settings

Embodied Cognition over the Lifespan and in Applied Settings
Author: Annalisa Setti
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-06-11
Genre:
ISBN: 2889454924

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While Embodied Cognition has now been accepted as mainstream in Cognitive Science, the study of its potential contribution to understding child developemnt and ageing, as well as its potential applications, is still in its infancy. This collection of articles explores the contribution of Embodied Cognition to studying the lifespan and potential applied fields. The contributions are theoretical and empirical and offer an important framework for future research and its applications.

The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1

The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1
Author: Richard M. Lerner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1624
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470634359

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In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of of the biological and cognitive aspects of human change across the lifespan.

The Handbook of Aging and Cognition

The Handbook of Aging and Cognition
Author: Fergus I.M. Craik
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136872140

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Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past ten years. This new edition reviews new findings and theories, enables the reader to assess where the field is today, and evaluates its points of growth. The chapters are organized to run from reviews of current work on neuroimaging, neuropsychology, genetics and the concept of brain reserve, through the 'mainstream' topics of attention, memory, knowledge and language, to a consideration of individual differences and of cognitive aging in a lifespan context. This edition continues to feature the broad range of its predecessors, while also providing critical assessments of current theories and findings.

Interactive Minds

Interactive Minds
Author: Paul B. Baltes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1996-04-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521485678

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Interactive Minds harnesses both research and theory from several disciplines to study cognitive development in the social context of the life course.

Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes

Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes
Author: Vicki Anderson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136873546

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This volume has as its primary aim the examination of issues concerning executive function and frontal lobe development. While many texts have addressed these issues, this is the first to do so within a specifically developmental framework. This area of cognitive function has received increasing attention over the past decade, and it is now established that the frontal lobes, and associated executive functions, are critical for efficient functioning in daily life. It is also clear, and of particular relevance to this text, that these functions develop gradually through childhood, and then deteriorate during old age. These developmental trajectories, and the impact of any interruption to them, are the focus of this volume.