In recent years the field of cognitive aging has flourished and expanded into many different disciplines. It is probably, therefore, inevitable that some of the research has become very narrow, primarily focused on “counting and classifying the wrinkles of aged behavior,” rather than addressing more broad, general, and important questions. Timothy Salthouse’s main goal in this book is to try to identify some of the major phenomena in the field of cognitive aging, and discuss issues relevant to the investigation and interpretation of them. He does not attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the research literature on aging and cognition because many excellent reviews are available in edited handbooks. His principal aim is rather to stimulate readers to think about the big questions in cognitive aging research, and how they might best be answered.
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Anyone who reads this book and absorbs its wisdom will be a better researcher as a result. This doyen of cognitive ageing research provides consise, clear, thoughtful and informative scientific meditations on some of his top issues in cognitive ageing; and it is hard to disagree with his choice of them. Eschewing a list-of-findings approach — though there are well-chosen findings aplenty too — the book cares and argues about what the field looks like and how it can do better, what characterises a good study, and what the principal findngs can actually tell us. This is a generous book: Salthouse offers the reader a researcher’s toolkit as well as an even-handed, magesterial and highly readable summary of key cognitive ageing topics. — Ian Deary, Professor of Differential Psychology Director, University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology Department of Psychology University of Edinburgh
“…Major Issues in Cognitive Aging is an easy and provocative read, and certainly it does an impressive job summarizing many of the major issues that confront the field of cognitive aging…We believe that some of them would do a considerable service to the field by imparting some of their wisdom in the fashion that Salthouse does here by addressing other major issues in cognitive aging in a comprehensive, integrative fashion.” –PsycCRITIQUES
Book Description
In this book, Timothy Salthouse identifies some of the major phenomena in the field of cognitive aging and discusses issues relevant to the investigation and interpretation of them.
About the Author
Timothy Salthouse is the Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
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