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Cognitive and Emotional Aging Across the Life Span: Implications for Building the Cognitive Reserve and Resilience

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Aging is a cognitive-affective-behavioral construction, apart from being a biological reality which makes it a complex phenomenon. Over the last few decades, a major demographic transition at the global level has been witnessed in the aging population, with a robust finding of positivity bias among older adults. It is now stated that an increased capacity for emotional regulation is a key feature of human aging because of which older adults are more adaptive to positive affective experiences. Henceforth, a large amount of work has focused on cognitive and emotional aging, marking the importance of affective prioritization in support of building cognitive reserve. Neuroscientific studies have also shown evidence for a positivity effect in terms of enhanced connectivity between amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex at rest for memory positivity. However, there is less research to investigate whether these effects are gradual across the adult life span or become exaggerated (or only appear) with increasing age across populations. One of the recent studies has explored the adult age differences in the interaction between cognitive and affective aging in the Indian context. This chapter focuses on the life span perspective of cognitive and emotional aging and its implications and strategies for building resilience and cognitive reserve. We also propose the affective reserve hypothesis (ability to adapt to stressful situations and prevent the impact of emotional distress) as a plausible outcome of the positivity effect, which needs to be investigated empirically.

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Mohindru, S., Nigam, R., Kar, B.R. (2023). Cognitive and Emotional Aging Across the Life Span: Implications for Building the Cognitive Reserve and Resilience. In: Rizvi, S.I. (eds) Emerging Anti-Aging Strategies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7443-4_16

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