The Cognitive Aging Laboratory

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A major focus in the Cognitive Aging Lab is the Virginia Cognitive Aging Project (VCAP). This is currently one of the largest active longitudinal studies of aging involving comprehensive cognitive assessments in adults ranging from 18 to 99 years of age in the world. Over 5,000 adults have participated in our three-session (6-8 hours) assessment at least once, with about 2,500 participating at least twice, and about 1300 of them participating three or more times. The data from this project have served as the basis of student theses and dissertations, and have been described in numerous scientific publications (available in the Resources section of this website).

Salthouse T. Major issues in cognitive aging. Oxford University Press; 2010.

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Craik FI, Salthouse T, editors. Handbook of Aging and Cognition. 3rdrd ed. New York, NY: Psychology Press; 2008.

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Craik FI, Salthouse T, editors. Handbook of Aging and Cognition. 2ndnd ed. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associatesce; 2000.

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Schulz. Salthous (1998). Adult development and aging: Myths and emerging realities. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall; Submitted.

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Lawton P, Salthouse T. Essential papers on the psychology of aging. NYU Press; 1998.
Craik FI, Salthouse T. The handbook of aging and cognition. Psychology press; 1992.
Salthouse T. Mechanisms of age-cognition relations in adulthood. Psychology Press; 1992.

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Salthouse T. Theoretical perspectives on cognitive aging. Psychology Press; 1991.

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Salthouse T. A theory of cognitive aging. Elsevier; 1985.

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Salthouse T. Adult cognition: An experimental psychology of human aging. Springer Science & Business Media; 1982.

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Salthouse T, Kausler D, Saults S. Investigation of student status, background variables, and feasibility of standard tasks in cognitive aging research. Psychology and Aging. 1988;3(1):29.

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Salthouse T, Saults S. Multiple spans in transcription typing. Journal of Applied Psychology. 1987;72(2):187.

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Salthouse T, Coon V. Interpretation of differential deficits: the case of aging and mental arithmetic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 1994;20(5):1172.

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Salthouse T. Aging associations: Influence of speed on adult age differences in associative learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 1994;20(6):1486.

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Salthouse T. Initiating the formalization of theories of cognitive aging. Psychology and aging. 1988;3(1):3.

initiating_the_formalization.pdf1.46 MB
Salthouse T. The role of representations in age differences in analogical reasoning. Psychology and Aging. 1987;2(4):357.

the_role_of_representations.pdf551.48 KB
Salthouse T. The nature of the influence of speed on adult age differences in cognition. Developmental psychology. 1994;30(2):240.

the_nature_of_the_influence.pdf2.56 MB
Kausler D, Salthouse T, Saults S. Temporal memory over the adult lifespan. The American journal of psychology. 1988:207–215.

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Salthouse T, Babcock R, Shaw R. Effects of adult age on structural and operational capacities in working memory. Psychology and aging. 1991;6(1):118.

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Salthouse T, Mitchell DR, Palmon R. Memory and age differences in spatial manipulation ability. Psychology and Aging. 1989;4(4):480.

memory_and_age_differences.pdf1.25 MB
Salthouse T, Mitchell D. Structural operational capacities in integrative spatial ability. Psychology and Aging. 1989;4(1):18.

structural_operational.pdf1.12 MB
Salthouse T. Adult age differences in integrative spatial ability. Psychology and Aging. 1987;2(3):254.

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Babcock R, Salthouse T. Effects of increased processing demands on age differences in working memory. Psychology and aging. 1990;5(3):421.

effects_of_increased_processing.pdf1.19 MB
Salthouse T, Kersten A. Decomposing adult age differences in symbol arithmetic. Memory & Cognition. 1993;21(5):699–710.

decomposing_adult_age_differences.pdf1.42 MB
Salthouse T, Wright R, Ellis C. Adult age and the rate of an internal clock. Journal of Gerontology. 1979;34(1):53–57.

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Salthouse T. Adult age and the speed-accuracy trade-off. Ergonomics. 1979;22(7):811–821.

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Danziger W, Salthouse T. Age and the perception of incomplete figures. Experimental Aging Research. 1978;4(1):67–80.

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Salthouse T, Babcock R, Skovronek E, Mitchell DR, Palmon R. Age and experience effects in spatial visualization. Developmental Psychology. 1990;26(1):128.

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Salthouse T. Age and experience effects on the interpretation of orthographic drawings of three-dimensional objects. Psychology and Aging. 1991;6(3):426.

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Salthouse T. Age, experience, and compensation. Cognitive functioning and social structure over the life course. 1987:142–157.

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