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  • 12 - Age-Related Cognitive Decline: A Network Enrichment Account

  • from Part III - Mind
  • Thomas T. Hills, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    Behavioral Network Science
    Published online:
    08 November 2024
    Print publication:
    30 November 2024, pp 184-202

  • Summary

    There are two contrasting views of aging. One sees age as a process of cognitive decline, a natural consequence of biological aging. The other sees aging as a process of lifelong learning: Older adults show conspicuous improvements in vocabulary across the lifespan as well as in many other knowledge-related domains. Of these two views, one is based on an underlying process of decay. The other is based on enrichment. Here we will investigate how understanding the nature of structural changes across the lifespan can help align these views, demonstrating how age related cognitive decline can be explained as a process of network enrichment caused by lifelong learning.