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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919683361~frm=abslink
The authors found that participants performed best when problems were situated in contexts representative of their own age group, so that older adults also outperformed the other age groups on problems set in older adult contexts, but did worse on problems set in younger contexts. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/3/300.abstract
The authors report that in older women, cognitive decline generally precedes or co-occurs with physical performance decline. |
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The Center coordinates a major research program focused on creativity and aging, and houses the Creativity Discovery Corps. |
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| http://gerontologist.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/6/711
The authors report on research on how patients experience living with dementia in residential care, and how they cope with it. |
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Promotes and supports the need for sharing the life stories and special creative talents of older adults. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/1/57.abstract
The authors note that the connection referenced in the title of their article is not the result of higher risk of dementia. |
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Subtitled, a Journal of Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Research, this journal publishes original research articles, theoretical papers, critical reviews, case histories, historical articles, and scholarly notes. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919684418~frm=abslink
The findings suggest that age-related slowing in simple repetitive tasks is mainly related to slowing at the stage of perceptuomotor processes, and after 60 years, to additional decline of attention, but apparently not to decision-making deficits. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908222483~db=all~order=page
The authors report that younger and older adults measured about the same in their ability to remember, with no differences caused by inhibition. |
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| http://jag.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/4/446
Do stereotypes about the effect of aging concerning cognitive, physical, physiological and psychological performance affect how older adults actually do perform? This review, by Sean Horton et al, of 17 studies suggests that they do |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2008-07367-004
Murphy and Isaacowitz reviewed 37 previous studies memory and attention tasks and found that few age differences exist. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908218704~db=all~order=page
Pardini and Nichelli found age-related declines in mentalizing skills as early as the fifth decade of life. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64B/6/696
The authors found that older adults had more trouble than younger adults connecting emotion content of faces and bodies to voices, and evidence that this is a problem integrating these elements rather than any deficits in individual areas. |
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