Consequences of Age-Related Cognitive Declines
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Adult age differences in a variety of cognitive abilities are well documented, and many of those abilities have been found to be related to success in the workplace and in everyday life. However, increased age is seldom associated with lower levels of real-world functioning, and the reasons for this lab-life discrepancy are not well understood. This article briefly reviews research concerned with relations of age to cognition, relations of cognition to successful functioning outside the laboratory, and relations of age to measures of work performance and achievement. The final section discusses several possible explanations for why there are often little or no consequences of age-related cognitive declines in everyday functioning.
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Cognitive abilities decline with age, and monotonic age-related cognitive decline has been reported from between 20 and 75 years of age.
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- Authors
- Salthouse, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Virginia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Salthouse, Timothy
- Venue
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2012-01-10
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 201-226
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- PMC
- PMC3632788
- OpenAlex
- W2096337635
- Cited by
- 818
- References
- 174
- Citations by year
- 2026: 46 · 2025: 78 · 2024: 78 · 2023: 57 · 2022: 69 · 2021: 81 · 2020: 65 · 2019: 73 · 2018: 46 · 2017: 63 · 2016: 50 · 2015: 40 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 2.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R37AG024270)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Demography › Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Keywords
- age-related cognitive decline, aging, cognitive ability, real-world functioning, employee performance, everyday life, older adults, cognitive aging
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Age Factors, Aging, Cognition, Cognition Disorders, Humans
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