Cognitive Reserve? Cognitive Capacity!
Kenneth R Paap, Yang Zhang · 2024
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Kenneth Paap argues for retiring a famous idea in aging research in a 2024 paper. Cognitive reserve says life experience, like schooling or bilingual life, lets some brains resist decline better than expected. The idea guides much work on aging and brain disease. Paap contends it has outlived its use and even invites magical thinking.
The flaw, he argues, is the phrase better than expected. Expected rests on today's incomplete maps of brain structure and function, so the concept shrinks as knowledge grows. His alternative, cognitive capacity, treats performance as always set by the brain's real structure and function. That frame covers factors that raise or lower performance in anyone, young or old, sick or well. It points research at direct causes in the brain.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kenneth R Paap, Yang Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |