Angela Gutchess

Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrates a neuroscience approach to study aging. In addition to covering standard cognitive functions, it incorporates socioemotional abilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781107084643
• ISBN-10: 1107084644
• Artikelnr.: 52527482

Autorenporträt

Angela Gutchess is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, with appointments in Neuroscience and the Volen Center for Complex Systems. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan and her B.A./B.S. from Boston University. Her research investigates the influence of age and culture on memory and social cognition, using behavioral, neuroimaging (fMRI), electrophysiological (ERP), and patient (aMCI) methods. She has authored over sixty peer-reviewed papers on these topics. Her research has been funded by National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Science Foundation (NSF), American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), and the Alzheimer's Association. As a Fulbright Scholar, she had the opportunity to spend a research semester in Istanbul at Bogazici University. Dr Gutchess was elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Memory and Memory & Cognition, is an incoming Associate Editor at the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, and serves as a Consulting Editor for Psychology and Aging and Culture and Brain.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of aging
2. Brain mechanisms of aging
3. Cognition and aging
4. Memory and aging
5. Emotion and aging
6. Social cognition and aging
7. Alzheimer's disease and age-related disorders
8. Current and future directions.