Cognitive Aging

Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Brennan R. Payne received his Ph.D. in the Cognitive Science of Learning from the University of Illinois. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Cognition and Neural Science program in the Department of Psychology and director of the Language and Memory Aging Lab at the University of Utah. He also holds appointments in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Neuroscience Program, and the Utah Center on Aging. Brennan’s research takes an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human language and memory functioning across the adult lifespan. His work has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, the National Science Foundation, and Google.

1. Prior knowledge shapes older adults’ perception and memory for everyday events
Heather Bailey
2. Age differences in how emotion affects cognitive processing
Sarah J. Barber
3. How to let go of the past: Lessons from the literature on aging and prospective memory
Julie M. Bugg
4. Relationship between arteriosclerosis and related risk factors and cognition
Monica Fabiani
5. Acceptance as a cognitive emotion regulation strategy in older adulthood
Derek Isaacowitz and Hannah Wolfe
6. Health literacy and aging
Dan Morrow
7. Utility of and Challenges to Characterizing Older Adults’ Memory Function Using Naturalistic Materials
Lauren Richmond
8. Language processing is both incremental / predictive and segmental / integrative — and the balance may shift with aging.
Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow
9. Chapter title to be confirmed
Lixia Yang
10. Syncing with seniors: Intergenerational neurobehavioral coupling during naturalistic communication
Suzanne Dikker