The Handbook of Aging and Cognition (SECOND EDITION)

Mahwah, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates , 2000. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; highlighting, underlining, and margin-writing throughout the book; overall a nice used SECOND EDITION! Red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. 755 informative and educational pages! "Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past 10 years. This second edition reviews new findings and theories, enables the reader to assess where the field is today, and evaluates its points of growth. The chapters are organized to run from a consideration of the neural correlates of age-related changes in cognition, through the "mainstream" topics of perception, attention, memory, and language, to more applied areas, and finally to reviews of cognitive changes in the contexts of emotion, motivation, and personality. This edition has a broader scope than the first, progressing from structural changes in the brain to a consideration of changes in the self concept and in social cognition........." (SECOND EDITION). . Second Edition. Red Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.