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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 34, 期 1, 页码 22-34出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/09567976221118541
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cohort; cognitive ability; individual differences; sociocultural factors; historical change; Berlin Aging Studies
Increases in older adults' levels of cognitive performance over time have been documented in history, but there is little information about historical shifts in within-person cognitive decline and onset of decline. A study comparing data from two independent samples recruited in 1990 and 2010 found that although cognitive functioning has shifted to higher levels, there was no evidence of cohort differences in the amount or rate of decline and the onset of decline. This suggests that cognitive decline in old age proceeds similarly to two decades ago.
History-graded increases in older adults' levels of cognitive performance are well documented, but little is known about historical shifts in within-person change: cognitive decline and onset of decline. We combined harmonized perceptual-motor speed data from independent samples recruited in 1990 and 2010 to obtain 2,008 age-matched longitudinal observations (M = 78 years, 50% women) from 228 participants in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) and 583 participants in the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). We used nonlinear growth models that orthogonalized within- and between-person age effects and controlled for retest effects. At age 78, the later-born BASE-II cohort substantially outperformed the earlier-born BASE cohort (d = 1.20; 25 years of age difference). Age trajectories, however, were parallel, and there was no evidence of cohort differences in the amount or rate of decline and the onset of decline. Cognitive functioning has shifted to higher levels, but cognitive decline in old age appears to proceed similarly as it did two decades ago.
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