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Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging: Linking Cognitive and Cerebral Aging
 Until very recently, our knowledge about the neural basis of cognitive aging was based on two disciplines that had very little contact with each other. Whereas the neuroscience of aging investigated the effects of aging on the brain independently of age-related changes in cognition, the cognitive psychology of aging investigated the effects of aging on cognition independently of age-related changes in the brain. The lack of communication between these two disciplines is currently being addressed by an increasing number of studies that focus on the relationships between cognitive aging and cerebral aging. This rapidly growing body of research has come to constitute a new discipline, which may be called cognitive neuroscience of aging. The goal of Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging is to introduce the reader to this new discipline at a level that is useful to both professionals and students in the domains of cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, neuropsychology, neurology, and other, related areas.
This book is divided into four main sections. The first section describes noninvasive measures of cerebral aging, including structural (e.g., volumetric MRI), chemical (e.g., dopamine PET), electrophysiological (e.g., ERPs), and hemodynamic (e.g., fMRI), and discusses how they can be linked to behavioral measures of cognitive aging. The second section reviews evidence for the effects of aging on neural activity during different cognitive functions, including perception and attention, imagery, working memory, long-term memory, and prospective memory. The third section focuses on clinical and applied topics, such as the distinction between healthy aging and Alzheimers disease and the use of cognitive training to ameliorate age-related cognitive decline. The last section describes theories that relate cognitive and cerebral aging, including models accounting for functional neuroimaging evidence and models supported by computer simulations. Taken together, the chapters in this volume provide the first unified and comprehensive overview of the new discipline of cognitive neuroscience of aging.
Hardcover: 408 pages
Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2004-11-18)
ISBN: 0195156749
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Literature Links: Thematic Units Linking Read-Alouds And Computer Activities
 Create literacy-rich learning environments by linking children's literature with practical, timely, motivating, and developmentally appropriate computer activities. This book gives you ideas for providing primary-grade students with literacy learning opportunities that integrate conventional literacies, such as phonics and comprehension, with new literacies, such as multimedia composition and hyperlink navigation. You'll find a variety of linked activities, including reading children's books, creating multimedia documents, writing with word-processing programs, and engaging in online communications exchanges.
Author: Mary Susan Love, Miri Park Prior, Betty P. Hubbard, Tammy Ryan
Hardcover: 328 pages
Company: International Reading Association (2006-05)
ISBN: 0872075621
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Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and catastrophic regime shift in Zion National Park [An article from: Biological Conservation]
![Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and catastrophic regime shift in Zion National Park [An article from: Biological Conservation]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P1T5EY1VL._SL160_.jpg) This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The strength of top-down forces in terrestrial food webs is highly debated as there are few examples illustrating the role of large mammalian carnivores in structuring biotic and abiotic systems. Based on the results of this study we hypothesize that an increase in human visitation within Zion Canyon of Zion National Park ultimately resulted in a catastrophic regime shift through pathways involving trophic cascades and abiotic environmental changes. Increases in human visitors in Zion Canyon apparently reduced cougar (Puma concolor) densities, which subsequently led to higher mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) densities, higher browsing intensities and reduced recruitment of riparian cottonwood trees (Populus fremontii), increased bank erosion, and reductions in both terrestrial and aquatic species abundance. These results may have broad implications with regard to our understanding of alternative ecosystem states where large carnivores have been removed or are being recovered.
Author: W.J. Ripple, R.L. Beschta
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Company: Elsevier (2006-12-01)
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