Age-related declines in cognitive functioning have been well documented, however, there are vast individual differences in the age of onset and magnitude of these changes. This observation has spurred the investigation of ...

Previous research has found that older adults are more susceptible to proactive interference. This is likely due to age-related deficits in the PFC-mediated cognitive control processes recruited to resolve interference. ...

The inclusion of subgoals in instructional materials has been shown to help learners be more successful solving novel problems. However, there are no studies on the neurological effects of this learning methodology. Cognition ...

It is a known phenomenon that older adults tend to get less sleep and lower sleep quality compared to their younger counterparts, getting worse with age. They also often have difficulty falling asleep, which can be described ...

The use of mobile technology affords novel opportunities to mitigate temporal, geographic, and personnel constraints imposed by in-person cognitive testing procedures, and to improve temporal precision by increasing the ...

For more than a century, the standard view in the field of human intelligence has been that there is a “general intelligence” that permeates all human cognitive activity. This general cognitive ability is supposed to explain ...

Multifaceted approaches to understanding daily fluctuations that affect memory and well-being among spousal dyads, where one member has diagnosed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and the other serves as a care partner, is ...

Many older adults are living with at least one chronic disease and must adhere to prescribed medications to control the impact of these diseases. Most common is hypertension, a mostly asymptomatic disease in which one’s ...