This book offers an updated account of the latest methodological and t heoretical issues in cognitive aging. Part of the Debates in Psycholog y series, it presents the arguments surrounding the currently controve rsial questions in cognitive aging. What is the appropriate methodolog y for understanding cognitive change? How many factors are necessary t o understand the patterns of age-related change? What might these fact ors be? The topics and arguments explored in a series of chapters by t he leading researchers in the field, and together they cover a broad r ange of cognitive functions...