To date, cognitive intervention research has provided mixed but nevertheless promising
evidence with respect to the effects of cognitive training on untrained tasks (transfer). However, …

The aim of the present study was to investigate age-related differences in text comprehension
performance in 10- to 12-year-old children, analyzing the joint influence of working …

Objectives. Age-related changes in the efficiency of various general cognitive mechanisms
have been evoked to account for age-related differences between young and older adults in …

The aim of this study was to examine to what extent inhibitory control and working memory
capacity are related across the life span. Intrusion errors committed by children and younger …

The influence of the mode of presentation (simultaneous vs. sequential) on accuracy and
latency of visuospatial recognition was explored in three experiments. In Experiment 1, two …

Objectives: Psychological predictors, such as personality traits, have aroused growing
interest as possible predictors of late-life depression outcome in old age. It remains, however, …

The objective of this paper, in line with the other papers of this special issue, is to show the
potentialities of combining intelligence research and cognitive psychology. The development …

Using a sample of octogenarians from the Swiss Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on the
Oldest Old, the authors investigated the predictive validity of an expanded working definition …

The neo‐Piagetian theories represented in this special issue are examined from the cross‐cultural
and differential perspectives. The goals, methods and achievements of these two …

The present study investigates intraindividual variability (IIV) in the Color-Stroop test and in
a simple reaction time (SRT) task. Performance level and variability in reaction times (RTs)—…