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| Introduction: A.T. Welford, The Gerontological Balance Sheet | |
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| Neurophysiological Sparing | |
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| Neural Plasticity as a Substrate for Cognitive | |
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| Adaptation in Adulthood and Aging | |
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| Differential Effects of Aging on the Neurocognitive Functions Subserving Speeded Mental Processing | |
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| R. Parasuraman and P.G. Nestor, Preserved Cognitive | |
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| Operations in Earl Alzheimers Disease | |
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| Information Processing Rate | |
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| General Slowing and Age-Invariance in Cognitive Processing | |
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| The Other Side of the Coin | |
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| A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Age-Related Slowing Developmental Changes in the Functional Architecture | |
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| Laboratory Tests of the Disuse Account of Cognitive Decline | |
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| Preservative and Restorative Effects of Aerobic Fitness on the Age-Related Slowing of Mental Processing Speed | |
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| AttentionalCapacity | |
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| Performance of a Complex Motor Skill Across the Life-Span | |
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| General Trends and Qualifications | |
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| Sustained Attention in Older Adults | |
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| Performance and Processes | |
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| Selective Preservation of Selective Attention | |
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| Perception of Objects | |
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| Semantic Processes that Serve Picture Naming | |
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| Preserved and Impaired Memory Functionsin Elderly Adults | |
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| Limits on Losses in Face Recognition | |
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| Word Perception: Sparing Activation Processes in Older Adults | |
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| Preserved Semantic Memory Structure in Alzheimers Disease. Language Comprehension | |
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| Is Speech Special? | |
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| Perception and Recall of Spoken Language in Complex Environments | |
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| Comprehension of Metaphors by Young and Older Adults | |
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| Adult Use of Discourse Constraints on Syntactic Processing | |
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| Learning, Memory, and Problem Solving | |
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| Aging and Learning: Insights from Implicitand | |
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| Explicit Tests. Minimized Prospective Memory Loss in Old Age | |
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| Mental Models and the Maintenance of Complex | |
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| Problem-Solving Skills in Old Age | |
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| Conclusion: What Do We Need to Know about Aging? | |
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| Subject Index | |