Efficient Complex Skill Training into Old Age

The studies presented in this dissertation were funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, The Hague, project no. 575-22-006). They were conducted at Maastricht University and at the Open University of The Netherlands in Heerlen. The conference presentations emerging from this project were financed by grants provided by NWO and the Limburg University Fund (SWOL). ecause we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.