Aging and Creativity examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or output. The book reviews and summarizes both lab-based and real-world-based studies. Changes in working memory, speed of processing, learning efficiency, and retrieval from long-term memory are all discussed as factors influencing creativity, as are health changes and changes in social roles with later age. The book concludes with practical implications of age effects on creativity for older people in work and everyday life.

About the Author
Dr Gilhooly's research is in the area of human cognitive psychology, especially thinking and problem solving and effects of age on cognition and well-being. His emphasis recently has been on collaborative work at Brunel University London on aging, dementia, and on decision-making among professionals dealing with elder financial abuse. Dr. Gilhooly's research focusses on financial elder abuse; posterior cortical atrophy and Alzheimer's Disease; radiation exposure, exposure worry, and cognitive functioning; and lay concepts of dementia.


Book Information
ISBN 9780128164013
Author Kenneth J. Gilhooly
Format Paperback
Page Count 284
Imprint Academic Press Inc
Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight(grams) 450g