Aging and Creativityexamines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or output. The book reviews and summarizes both lab-based and real-world-based studies. Changes in working memory, speed of processing, learning efficiency, and retrieval from long-term memory are all discussed as factors influencing creativity, as are health changes and changes in social roles with later age. The book concludes with practical implications of age effects on creativity for older people in work and everyday life. Explores cognition and creativity from early adulthood through old ageConsiders creativity and aging from an evidence-based perspectiveIncludes biological, psychological, and social approaches to aging and creativityCovers age effects on perception, processing speed, working memory, and long-term memoryDiscusses effects of health and social role changes with age on creativityExamines links between productivity, motivation, and creativity over age | Aging And Creativity by Mary L. m. Gilhooly, Paperback | Indigo Chapters | Aging And Creativity by Mary L.m. Gilhooly, Paperback | Indigo Chapters