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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology

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  • Cognitive abilities like memory and processing speed often decline with age.
  • Significant individual differences exist in the rate of cognitive aging.
  • Understanding interrelations in cognitive changes is crucial for cognitive aging research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if longitudinal changes across different cognitive abilities are interrelated.
  • To investigate the presence and strength of a general factor of cognitive aging.

Main Methods:

  • Meta-analysis of 89 effect sizes from 22 unique datasets (>30,000 individuals).
  • Multilevel metaregression models were used to analyze shared variance in cognitive changes.
  • Sensitivity analysis controlled for dementia to assess robustness of findings.

Main Results:

  • An average of 60% of variation in cognitive changes was shared across abilities.
  • Shared variation increased with age, from 45% at 35 years to 70% at 85 years.
  • A strong correspondence (r = .49) was found between general intelligence and aging-related change.

Conclusions:

  • Strong evidence supports a general factor of cognitive aging that intensifies with age.
  • This general factor influences various cognitive abilities, with shared changes increasing over the adult lifespan.
  • Findings hold even when controlling for dementia, highlighting a fundamental aging process.