Everyday cognition: age and intellectual ability correlates

Article Abstract:

A number of basic abilities, along with measures of domain-specific knowledge, predict everyday cognitive performance in older adults, according to research designed to investigate the connection between a new battery of everyday cognition measures and traditional psychometric tests of the same basic cognitive skills. An analysis of the new battery's measurement properties indicated that the component measures were reliable and valid assessments of the everyday cognitive ability of older adults. The hypothesized ability-specificity of relationships between traditional and everyday cognitive measures did not occur.

Research, Cognition in old age, Old age cognition, Memory in old age, Old age memory

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Cardiovascular intraindividual variability in later life: The influence of social connectedness and positive emotions

Article Abstract:

Healthy normotensive men and women are assessed for emotions and cardiovascular functioning considering individual differences in social connectedness and moods, positive and negative emotions systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). The results suggest that it is the dynamic interplay between trait and state variables that provides substantive insight into the importance of social connectedness and positive emotions in later life.

Emotions, Connectionism

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Intraindividual variability may not always indicate vulnerability in Elders' cognitive performance

Article Abstract:

A study examined consistency of performance, or individual variability, in older adults' performance on three measures of cognitive functioning, namely inductive reasoning, memory and perceptual speed. Analysis reveals that a higher level of intraindividual variability is positively associated with the magnitude of a person's practice-related gain on a particular measure.

Behavior, Cognitive psychology

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