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Julie A Dumas¹

¹University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry, 1 South Prospect St, Burlington, VT 05401, (802)847-2523.

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Cognitive abilities change with age, with some functions like attention and memory declining while others, such as wisdom, improve. Functional neuroimaging reveals distinct brain activity patterns in older adults compared to younger adults.

Keywords:

attention cognitive abilities cognitive aging cognitive disorders episodic memory fMRI geropsychiatry late life pathological cognitive aging working memory

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Psychology
Gerontology

Background:

Cognitive abilities exhibit age-related changes, with declines in attention and memory, but improvements in wisdom and decision-making.
Empirical research and anecdotal reports support the concept of cognitive aging.
Older adults often perform worse on tests of attention, working memory, and episodic memory, but better on general knowledge.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe normal patterns of cognitive change in healthy aging.
To explore how functional neuroimaging elucidates age-related effects on brain circuitry.
To differentiate between normal cognitive aging and pathological cognitive aging.

Main Methods:

Review of empirical research in cognitive aging psychology.
Analysis of task-related functional neuroimaging studies.
Comparison of cognitive performance between younger and older adults.

Main Results:

Older adults show reduced performance in attention, working memory, and episodic memory.
Older adults demonstrate enhanced performance in general knowledge and some decision-making tasks.
Functional neuroimaging reveals increased frontal cortex activation in older adults and posterior activation in younger adults.

Conclusions:

Cognitive aging involves both decline and improvement in different cognitive domains.
Functional neuroimaging provides insights into the neural underpinnings of cognitive aging.
Distinguishing normal aging from pathological cognitive decline is an ongoing area of research.