Major Issues in Cognitive Aging
Timothy Salthouse
Reviews and Awards
Anyone who reads this book and absorbs its wisdom will be a better researcher as a result. This doyen of cognitive ageing research provides consise, clear, thoughtful and informative scientific meditations on some of his top issues in cognitive ageing; and it is hard to disagree with his choice of them. Eschewing a list-of-findings approach -- though there are well-chosen findings aplenty too -- the book cares and argues about what the field looks like and how it can do better, what characterises a good study, and what the principal findngs can actually tell us. This is a generous book: Salthouse offers the reader a researcher's toolkit as well as an even-handed, magesterial and highly readable summary of key cognitive ageing topics. -- Ian Deary, Professor of Differential Psychology Director, University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology Department of Psychology University of Edinburgh
"...Major Issues in Cognitive Aging is an easy and provocative read, and certainly it does an impressive job summarizing many of the major issues that confront the field of cognitive aging...We believe that some of them would do a considerable service to the field by imparting some of their wisdom in the fashion that Salthouse does here by addressing other major issues in cognitive aging in a comprehensive, integrative fashion." --PsycCRITIQUES
