Social and motivational compensatory mechanisms for age-related cognitive decline : a special issue of the journal Aging, neuropsychology and cognition / edited by Grzegorz Sedek, Paul Verhaeghen and Mike Martin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Introduction: Reconnecting cognition in the lab and cognition in real life: The role of compensatory social and motivational factors in explaining how cognition ages in the wild / Grzegorz Sedek -- 2.Mood, motivation, and misinformation: Aging and affective state influences on memory / Tonya Elliott -- 3.Positive effects of subclinical depression in prospective memory and ongoing tasks in young and old adults / Angelika Kleszczewska-Albinska -- 4.The age prospective memory paradox within the same sample in time-based and event-based tasks / Krystian Barzykowski -- 5.Age benefits in everyday prospective memory: The influence of personal task importance, use of reminders and everyday stress / Matthias Kliegel -- 6.Bingo! Externally supported performance intervention for deficient visual search in normal aging, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease / Alice Cronin-Golomb -- 7.The effects of print exposure on sentence processing and memory in older adults: Evidence for efficiency and reserve / Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow -- 8.Successful adaptation of gait in healthy older adults during dual-task treadmill walking / Richard G. DeMont -- 9.Plasticity of prospective memory through a familiarization intervention in old adults / Mike Martin -- 10.Brain training in older adults: Evidence of transfer to memory span performance and pseudo-Matthew effects / Becky House -- 11.Age- and practice-related influences on dual-task costs and compensation mechanisms under optimal conditions of dual-task performance / Torsten Schubert -- 12.Cognitive function, physical activity, and aging: Possible biological links and implications for multimodal interventions / Eduard Kraft -- 13.Aging and perceived event structure as a function of modality / Jeffrey M. Zacks -- 14.The relationship between need for closure and memory for schema-related information among younger and older adults / Marta Szastok -- 15.Age-related schema reliance of judgments of learning in predicting source memory / Xi-Ping Liu -- 16.Semantic encoding enhances the pictorial superiority effect in the oldest-old / S. Michal Jazwinski.