Explaining neurocognitive aging: is one factor enough?
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.
Leiden University, The Netherlands. band@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Guido P H
GP
Band
K Richard
KR
Ridderinkhof
Sidney
S
Segalowitz
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans
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