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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Talking about old age; PART I: What is aging?; Chapter 2: Why and how do we age?; Why we could not live for ever; Not all for each but each for all; High costs of sex; Some advantages of reproducing later in life; Advantages of married life; Why women live longer; Notes; References; Chapter 3: How fast do we change?; Collecting evidence; The past is another country where things were very different; Geographical differences; Tracking individual lives; Time from our beginning and from our end |
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Clever genes and long-life genesDoes it all go together when it goes?; Notes; References; Chapter 4: How well do we understand what is happening to us?; Asking people about their everyday competence; Feeling low and scoring low; Judging how well we are and how long we will survive; What do we compare our health against?; How can we assess ourselves more accurately?; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Biological signs of brain aging; The falling years; Seeing and hearing our futures; Working out the exact amounts by which age affects intelligence, vision and balance |
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Measuring and using gross changes in the brainNotes; References; PART II: Memory; Chapter 6: What is memory for?; How working memory works; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Remembering and planning to do things; Looking for things; Unconscious awareness of plans; References; Chapter 8: Who said that?; Linking sources to content; Forgetting to whom you told your story; References; Chapter 9: Losing and finding words and names; The natural history of TOTs; I'll never forget what's-his-name; Naming faces; Words in the brain; Note; References; Chapter 10: Remembering the beginnings of our lives |
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Blight out of mind?Language and early memories; Do our earliest memories alter as we age?; How our early memories construct our life stories; References; Chapter 11: Remembering the rest of our lives; Which parts of our lives do we remember best?; Flashbulb memories; Remembering what we have learned; References; PART III: Senses; Chapter 12: Seeing; Our best guesses about reality; A look at the eye; Notes; References; Chapter 13: Hearing; The ear; Hearing where things are; Particular hearing losses; Obvious and less obvious problems of being deaf; Note; References; Chapter 14: Taste and smell |
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NoteReferences; Chapter 15: Fumbling and stumbling; Notes; References; PART IV: Intelligence, skills and wisdom; Chapter 16: General smarts; What do intelligence tests measure?; Testing times; References; Chapter 17: Keeping the skills we have learned; But what about "the wisdom of old age"?; What is wisdom?; Notes; References; Chapter 18: Reading others' minds; Dialects of the face; Recognising faces and expressions as we grow old; When faces, voices and bodies give different messages; What goes on in the brain when we recognise non-verbal cues?; Accentuating the positive |
| Notes |
Back to the brain again |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognition -- Age factors.
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Ability, Influence of age on.
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Developmental psychology.
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Ability, Influence of age on
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Cognition -- Age factors
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Developmental psychology
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351035217 |
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1351035215 |
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9781351035200 |
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1351035207 |
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