Title of article :
Explaining Neurocognitive Aging: Is One Factor Enough?
Author/Authors :
Band، نويسنده , , Guido P.H. and Ridderinkhof، نويسنده , , K.Richard and Segalowitz، نويسنده , , Sidney، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
Abstract :
As an introduction to the special issue on neurocognitive factors underlying age effects, we discuss a number of recent developments in the literature on aging. The classic distinction between generalized and process-specific cognitive changes with old age has reappeared in the distinctions between the frontal lobe hypothesis and more differentiated views of neurocognitive aging. We argue that neurological decay in the frontal cortex has important implications for cognitive control, but that the frontal lobe hypothesis does not capture the plethora of changes that characterize aging and incorrectly suggests a unitary effect.
Keywords :
Key Words: cognitive aging , Brain , frontal lobe hypothesis , Dopamine , neuronal loss , executive control
Journal title :
Brain and Cognition
Journal title :
Brain and Cognition