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ReviewAnnual review of psychology2012

Consequences of age-related cognitive declines.

Timothy Salthouse

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Review in Annual review of psychology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 234 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

234 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Association between higher serum uric acid levels and cognitive function: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
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  20. CATSLife: A Study of Lifespan Behavioral Development and Cognitive Functioning.Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Timothy SalthouseDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 22904-4400, USA. salthouse@virginia.edu

Funding

Short-term cognitive change in adults from 18 to 80R37AG024270 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI SALTHOUSE, TIMOTHY · 2005 to 2014
$4.4M
NIA NIH HHS R37 AG024270
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adult age differences in a variety of cognitive abilities are well documented, and many of those abilities have been found to be related to success in the workplace and in everyday life. However, increased age is seldom associated with lower levels of real-world functioning, and the reasons for this lab-life discrepancy are not well understood. This article briefly reviews research concerned with relations of age to cognition, relations of cognition to successful functioning outside the laboratory, and relations of age to measures of work performance and achievement. The final section discusses several possible explanations for why there are often little or no consequences of age-related cognitive declines in everyday functioning.

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CognitionActivities of Daily LivingAge FactorsAgingCognition DisordersHumans

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PMID21740223
PMCPMC3632788

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