This volume creates a bridge across cognitive development and cognitive aging. Pairs of researchers study the rise and fall of specific cognitive functions, such as attention, executive functioning, memory, working memory, representations, language, problem solving, intelligence, and individual differences to find ways in which the study of development and decline converge on common processes and mechanisms. The contributed chapters are framed by an introduction that sets out the problems to be discussed and a conclusion that extracts the common themes and speculates on the implications for theory building. The book is unique in offering a lifespan approach to cognition by experts in the individual facts of cognitive functioning from either the developmental or the aging perspective.

• 1: Fergus I.M. Craik and Ellen Bialystock: On Structure and Process in Lifespan Cognitive Development


• 2: Margot J. Taylor: Neural Bases of Cognitive Development


• 3: Randy Buckner, Denise Head, and Cindy Lustig: Brain Changes in Aging: A Lifespan Perspective


• 4: James T. Enns and Lana M. Trick: Four Modes of Selection


• 5: Arthur F. Kramer and Jutta Kray: Aging and Attention


• 6: Adele Diamond: The Early Development of Executive Functions


• 7: Karen Daniels, Jeffrey Toth, and Larry Jacoby: The Aging of Executive Functions


• 8: Graham J. Hitch: Working Memory in Children: A Cognitive Approach


• 9: Denise C. Park and Doris Payer: Working Memory Across the Adult Lifespan


• 10: Peter A. Ornstein, Catherine A. Haden, and Holger B. Elischberger: Children's Memory Development: Remembering the Past and Preparing for the Future


• 11: Rose T. Zacks and Lynn Hasher: Aging and Long-Term Memory: Deficits Are Not Inevitable


• 12: Katherine Nelson: Development of Representation in Childhood


• 13: Deborah M. Burke: Representation and Aging


• 14: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek: The Emergentist Coalition Model of Word Learning in Children Has Implications for Language in Aging


• 15: Susan Kemper: Language in Adulthood


• 16: Maureen Dennis: Language Meaning and Form Disorders


• 17: David Caplan and Gloria Waters: Language Disorders in Aging


• 18: Frank Keil: Patterns of Knowledge Growth and Decline


• 19: Timothy A. Salthouse: Aging of Thought


• 20: Robert S. Siegler: Inter- and Intra-individual Differences in Problem Solving Across the Life Span


• 21: Ulman Lindenberger and Timo von Oertzen: Variability in Cognitive Aging: From Taxonomy to Theory


• 22: Damian P. Birney and Robert J. Sternberg: Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities as Competencies in Development


• 23: Patrick Rabbitt and Mike Anderson: The Lacunae of Loss? Aging and the Differentiation of Cognitive Abilities


• 24: Shu-Chen Li and Paul B. Baltes: Cognitive Developmental Research from Lifespan Perspectives: The Challenge of Integration