Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Models of Cognitive Aging
- Part II Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging
- 7 Aging Effects on Brain and Cognition: What Do We Learn from a Strategy Perspective?
- 8 Inhibitory Theory: Assumptions, Findings, and Relevance to Interventions
- 9 From Perception to Action: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Influences on Age Differences in Attention
- 10 Age-Related Sensory Deficits and Their Consequences
- 11 Episodic Memory Decline in Aging
- 12 Age Differences in Decision Making
- 13 Emotion and Memory
- 14 Time Perception from Seconds to Lifetimes: How Perceived Time Affects Adult Development
- Part II Summary: Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging
- Part III Aging in a Socioemotional Context
- Part IV Cognitive, Social, and Biological Factors across the Lifespan
- Part V Later Life and Interventions
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
10 - Age-Related Sensory Deficits and Their Consequences
from Part II - Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Models of Cognitive Aging
- Part II Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging
- 7 Aging Effects on Brain and Cognition: What Do We Learn from a Strategy Perspective?
- 8 Inhibitory Theory: Assumptions, Findings, and Relevance to Interventions
- 9 From Perception to Action: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Influences on Age Differences in Attention
- 10 Age-Related Sensory Deficits and Their Consequences
- 11 Episodic Memory Decline in Aging
- 12 Age Differences in Decision Making
- 13 Emotion and Memory
- 14 Time Perception from Seconds to Lifetimes: How Perceived Time Affects Adult Development
- Part II Summary: Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging
- Part III Aging in a Socioemotional Context
- Part IV Cognitive, Social, and Biological Factors across the Lifespan
- Part V Later Life and Interventions
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
Changes in sensory systems are common as we get older and become more likely with increasing age. In the auditory system, age-related changes are seen in domains such as auditory sensitivity, temporal processing, and spatial localization, which have significant effects on speech understanding. In vision, age-related changes are seen in contrast sensitivity, scotopic processing, and visual processing speed, which have consequences for activities such as reading and driving. Aging is also associated with changes in smell, taste, and balance. Beyond simple perceptual processing, age-related sensory changes can increase cognitive demands, requiring greater involvement of domain-general cognitive processes during perception that reduce resources available for other operations. Capturing individual variability in sensory changes and their consequences is an important part of understanding normal and pathological aging.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive AgingA Life Course Perspective, pp. 179 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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