OBJECTIVES Individuals' perceptions of their own age(ing) are important correlates of well-being and health. The goals of the present study were to (a) examine indicators of self-perceptions of aging across adulthood and (b) experimentally test whether age stereotypes influence self-perceptions of aging. METHOD Adults 18-92 years of age were presented with positive, negative, or no age stereo...

Working memory (WM) declines with advancing age. Brain imaging studies indicate that ventral prefrontal cortex (PFC) is active when information is retained in WM and that dorsal PFC is further activated for retention of large amounts of information. The authors examined the effect of aging on activation in specific PFC regions during WM performance. Six younger and 6 older adults performed a ta...

Somatosensory evoked fields (SEFs) to electrical stimulation on the right and left sides of the lower lip were measured using magnetoencephalography and compared in the bilateral hemispheres of 31 healthy normal young and 29 healthy normal elderly subjects to evaluate age-related change in lip somatosensation. The initial peak of the response around 13 ms, designated as N13m, and the second pea...

As the population of older adults in the United States increases, state public health agencies are confronted with new opportunities and challenges (1). These agencies recognize the need to form new partnerships and develop effective and innovative approaches for addressing the needs of older adults (2). Public health initiatives to promote healthy aging and reduce the burden of chronic conditi...

To test age-linked predictions of node structure theory (NST) and other theories, young and older adults performed a task that elicited large numbers of phonological and morphological speech errors. Stimuli were visually presented words containing either /p/ or /b/, and participants changed the /p/ to /b/ or vice versa and produced the resulting word as quickly as possible. For example, the cor...

Recent research has shown that newly introduced motion in a scene captures attention in young adults. Prior research has been mixed in terms of possible age-related differences in the allocation of visual attention, and it remains unclear whether new motion has a similar influence on visual attention in older adults. In the present study, we directly compared the capture of attention by new mot...

In this study, we used a life span model to study the subjective perception of creative personality (CP) in emerging, young, middle-aged, and older Hong Kong Chinese adults. We also asked participants to estimate the approximate age by which people develop and lose CP across adulthood. We expected an interesting interplay between internalized age stereotypes and age-related differentiation in b...

Due to advances in treatment, people with HIV are living longer and developing disabilities related to the virus, adverse side effects of medications, and aging. Illness-related uncertainty has been shown to contribute to disablement; however, there is little understanding of the uncertainties related to aging with HIV. The purpose of this research was to describe the contribution of uncertaint...