Does Cognition Deteriorate With Age or Is It Enhanced by Experience?

Does Cognition Deteriorate With Age or Is It Enhanced by Experience?

Clearly, the description and explanation of cognitive decrements with aging is the domain of cognitive neuroscience, not of functional-level cognitive science. Nope! Not so fast! say Michael Ramscar, Peter Hendrix, Cyrus Shaoul, Petar Milin, and Harald Baayen, the authors of The Myth of Cognitive Decline, the latest addition to our occasional topic, Visions of Cognitive Science. Many things cov...

Does Investment Skill Deteriorate With Age?∗

This study focuses on the stock investment choices of older investors. Consistent with the theoretical predictions of life-cycle and learning models, we find that older investors hold less risky and better diversified stock portfolios, and their choices reflect greater knowledge about investing. However, consistent with the psychological evidence on cognitive aging, we also find that older inve...

Episodic Cognition : What is it , Where is it , and When does it Develop ? Lucy Cheke

Complex semantic processing in old age: does it stay or does it go?

Old adults' (N = 24) and young adults' (N = 24) speed of producing exemplars of semantic categories (i.e., semantic fluency) varying in difficulty was assessed both in a standard condition and in a "set-switching" condition where exemplars had to be produced from 2 categories in an alternating manner. "Retrieval-position function" parameters were used to assess speed of semantic access independ...

Medical Errors Disclosure: Is It Good or Bad?

Background: In the treatment and health process, there are a lot of dangers to patients, and the increased number of medical errors is one of the most important circumstances of this process. Objective: The present research purposed to decrease medical errors through disclosure of them in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. M...