期刊名称：Revue de Neuropsychologie Neurosciences Cognitives et Cliniques
印刷版ISSN：2101-6739
电子版ISSN：2102-6025
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：124-132
DOI：10.1684/nrp.2010.0068
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Figures See all figures Author Patrick Lemaire Université de Provence, 3 place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille ; et CNRS Key words: cognitive strategies, strategy repertoire, strategy execution, strategy distribution, strategy selection, problem solving DOI : 10.1684/nrp.2010.0068 Page(s) : 124-32 Published in: 2010 The paper reviews findings on aging and strategic variations. In particular, it provides an overview on which conditions the strategy perspective enables progress in further our understanding of cognitive aging and mechanisms underlying age-related changes in cognitive performance. We propose to distinguish among several strategy dimensions to investigate cognitive aging (strategy repertoire, distribution, execution, and selection). This enables to reconcile conflicting results in the literature. Moreover, appropriate research method (like the choice/no-choice method) enables to independently and with no biases assess different strategic aspects of people's performance and their changes with age. We illustrate such benefits with some of our findings from studies on arithmetic problem solving and discuss how such results easily generalize to other cognitive domains.
