Cognitive abilities in old age: Results from the Zurich Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging

被引：25

作者：

Zimprich, Daniel ^{[1
]}

Martin, Mike ^{[1
]}

Kliegel, Matthias ^{[1
]}

Dellenbach, Myriam ^{[1
]}

Rast, Philippe ^{[1
]}

Zeintl, Melanie ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Zurich, Dept Psychol, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

SWISS JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY | 2008年 / 67卷 / 03期

关键词：

cognition; old age; structure; age relations; ZULU;

D O I：

10.1024/1421-0185.67.3.177

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

The Zurich Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging (ZULU) is an ongoing longitudinal study on the structure and development of cognition in old age. At the first assessment, the N = 364 participants had an average age of 73 years (age range: 65-80 years), and 46% were female. In total a battery of 14 cognitive tests. including five consecutive verbal learning trials, were administered and adequately described by a measurement model of six first-order factors (processing speed, working memory, reasoning, learning, memory, and verbal knowledge) and one Second-order factor of general cognitive ability. The cross-sectional age relations of the six cognitive abilities were, apart from processing speed and verbal knowledge, mediated by the general cognitive ability factor. From a conceptual perspective, these results imply that cognitive aging is not a completely uniform process driven by a single causal variable.

引用

页码：177 / 195

页数：19

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