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Fully updated and revised, Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging, 2nd Edition provides an accessible introduction to aging and the brain. Now with full color throughout, it includes over fifty figures illustrating key research findings and anatomical diagrams. Adopting an integrative perspective across domains of psychological function, this edition features expanded coverage of multivariate methods, moral judgments, cognitive reserve, prospective memory, event boundaries, and individual differences related to aging, including sex, race, and culture. Although many declines occur with age, cognitive neuroscience research reveals plasticity and adaptation in the brain as a normal function of aging. With this perspective in mind, the book emphasizes the ways in which neuroscience methods have enriched and changed thinking about aging.

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Angela Gutchess is a Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University with appointments in Neuroscience and the Volen Center for Complex Systems. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan and her B.A./B.S. from Boston University. Her research investigates the influence of age and culture on memory and social cognition, using behavioral, neuroimaging (fMRI), electrophysiological (ERP), and patient (aMCI) methods. She has authored over one hundred peer-reviewed papers on these topics, and co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective with Ayanna Thomas. Her research has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Science Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Federation for Aging Research. As a Fulbright Scholar, she had the opportunity to spend a research semester in Istanbul, Turkey, at Boğaziçi University. Dr. Gutchess was elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society and the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society, serving as Chair in 2023.

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