Tag Archives: Cognitive aging

Outsourcing Memory in Response to an Aging Population

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

With baby boomers entering old age and longevity increasing, policymakers have focused on the physical, social, and health needs of older persons. We urge policymakers to consider cognitive aging as well, particularly normal, age-related memory decline. Psychological scientists attribute memory … Continue reading →

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Strategies for Preventing Cognitive Decline in Healthy Older Adults

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Many advances have been made in the understanding of age-related changes in cognition. As research details the cognitive and neurobiological changes that occur in aging, there is increased interest in developing and understanding methods to prevent, slow, or reverse the … Continue reading →

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Natural killers of cognition

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

One of the mechanisms driving aging and neurodegenerative diseases is the accumulation of senescent cells, while their elimination mitigates age-related decline. A new report details how, with aging, changes in the dentate gyrus microenvironment lead to natural-killer-cell-mediated clearance of neurogenic … Continue reading →

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Implicit motivation improves executive functions of older adults

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

It is widely accepted that while controlled processes (e.g., working memory and executive functions) decline with age, implicit (automatic) processes are not affected by age. In this paper we challenge this view by arguing that high-level automatic processes (e.g., recruiting … Continue reading →