On structure and process in lifespan cognitive development / Neural bases of cognitive development / Brain changes in aging : a lifespan perspective / Four modes of selection / Aging and attention / The early development of executive functions / The aging of executive functions / Working memory in children : a cognitive approach / Working memory across the adult lifespan / Children's memory development : remembering the past and preparing for the future / Aging and long-term memory : deficits are not inevitable / Development of representation in childhood / Representation and aging / The emergentist coalition model of word learning in children has implications for language in aging / Language in adulthood / Language meaning and form disorders / Language disorders in aging / Patterns of knowledge growth and decline / Aging of thought / Inter-and intra-individual differences in problem solving across the life span / Variability in cognitive aging : from taxonomy to theory / Intelligence and cognitive abilities as competencies in development / The lacunae of loss? : aging and the differentiation of cognitive abilities / Cognitive developmental research from lifespan perspectives : the challenge of integration