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Cognition et apprentissage pour une vieillesse active| old_uid | 11366 |
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| title | Cognition et apprentissage pour une vieillesse active |
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| start_date | 2012/05/10 |
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| schedule | 16h-18h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | RdC, salle D035 |
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| details | Discussion en anglais. |
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| summary | Stephen Mcnair
Older people's learning: needs and opportunities?
In the past, it has been assumed that learning (formal or informal) is of marginal interest to older people, and public policy has largely ignored it. However, as life expectancy rises, and Governments in most developed countries are aiming to raise real retirement ages, it becomes more important, to enable people to remain productive, and to play a part in maintaining wellbeing and the quality of life. However, relatively little is known about older people’s aspirations to learn, and about what kinds of learning might be most valuable, to individuals, the economy and society more widely. This presentation will discuss these questions in the light of current research and development work in the UK.
Patrick Lemaire
Strategic Variations and Cognitive Aging
How can we account for widespread age-related declines during non-pathological cognitive aging? How can we explain that some cognitive performance remains stable with age, and sometimes increases until late in life, while other cognitive dimensions decline from as early as 16 years of age up until the very end, and yet others do not start declining before we reach 50 or 70 years? How can we understand why some individuals undergo early and enhanced age-related cognitive declines while others know what we call “successful aging”? Recent data suggest that, in contrast to what is commonly assumed in research on cognitive aging, a strategy perspective better accounts for cognitive aging. Above and beyond a more detailed and accurate depiction of aging effects on cognitive performance, it enables a better understanding of developmental mechanisms underlying both cognitive changes and stability during adulthood. Empirical illustrations of our own (behavioral and brain-imaging) data that I shall present will illustrate the fruitfulness of the strategy approach to further our understanding of both cognitive aging and human cognition in general. Indeed, it offers important insights on mechanisms underlying robust experimental effects (e.g., variations in cognitive performance as a function of experimental conditions, stimulus characteristics, and/or situational constraints), as well as individual differences in human cognition and during cognitive aging. |
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| responsibles | Pasquinelli |
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