This work offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of how the cognitive system changes as a function of normal ageing, as well as what areas of cognitive function are more resistant to age changes.

Chapter 1. Basic Behavioral & Brain Mechanisms: New Challenges for a Cognitive Psychology of Aging. DenisePark, University of Illinois. Chapter 2. Attention and Aging. Wendy Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology.Chapter 3. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging PatriciaReuter-Lorenz, University of Michigan. Chapter 4.Executive Function.Timothy Salthouse, University ofVirginia. Chapter 5. Age-Related Changes in Human Memory.Fergus Craik, The University of Toronto. Chapter6. Autobiographical Memory and Aging. David Rubin, DukeUniversity. Chapter 7. Prospective Memory. GilEinstein, Furman University & Mark McDaniel, WashingtonUniversity. Chapter 8. Memory Training. Art Kramer,University of Illinois. Chapter 9. Longitudinal Studies of Memory. Roger Dixon, University of Alberta. Higher Order Cognitive Function. Chapter 10. Processing of Speech: Perception and Comprehension. Art Wingfield,Brandeis University. Chapter 11. Message Production and Comprehension. Susan Kemper, University of Kansas.Chapter 12 Aging, Circadian Arousal Patterns and Cognition. Carolyn Yoon, University of Michigan. Chapter13. Social Cognition and Aging. FreddaBlanchard-Fields, Georgia Institute of Technology.Chapter 14. Aging and Wisdom. Paul Baltes, Max PlanckInstitute - Berlin. Chapter 15. Aging, Culture, and Cognition. Angela Gutchess, University of Michigan.Chapter 16. Cognitive Aging and Everyday Life. DenisePark, University of Illinois. Chapter 17. Cognition, Aging, and Self-reports. Norbert Schwarz, University ofMichigan.. Chapter 18. Judgment and Decision-Making across the Adult Life Span. Alan Sanfey, University ofArizona & Reid Hastie, University of Chicago