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Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and cognitive functioning along the Alzheimer’s continuum
Volume 30, Issue 6, 2023 pages 861-970
Multivariate methods and cognitive aging
Volume 29, Issue 3, 2022 pages 367-619
Social and Motivational Compensatory Mechanisms for Age-related Cognitive Decline
Volume 19, Issue 1-2, 2012 pages 1-337

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  • Social and Motivational Compensatory Mechanisms for Age-Related Cognitive Decline
    Guest Editors: Grzegorz Sedek, Paul Verhaeghen and Mike Martin
    Volume 19, Issue 1-2 (2012) ISBN 978-1-84872-760-1

    The fifteen papers in this Special Issue compellingly show that older adults’ everyday cognitive life is governed not by the decline in elementary cognitive processes as measured in the lab, but by a multitude of compensatory mechanisms, most of which are of the social/motivational variety. Much of this compensatory behavior can be elicited with no or only little experimental prodding, underscoring the self-organizing or self-initiated nature of this type of behavior, even in advanced old age.