Measuring The Mind: Speed, Control, and Age - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0198566425 ISBN 13: 9780198566427

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2009

Riassunto

What are the fundamental mechanisms of decision making, processing speed, memory and cognitive control? How do these give rise to individual differences, and how do they change as people age? How are these mechanisms implemented in neural unctions, in particular the functions of the frontal lobe? How do they relate to the demands of everyday, 'real life' behaviour? Over almost five decades, Pat Rabbitt has been among the most distinguished of British cognitive psychologists. His work has been widely influential in theories of mental speed, cognitive control and aging, influencing research in experimental psychology, neuropsychology and individual differences. This volume, dedicated to Pat Rabbitt, brings together a distinguished group of 16 contributors actively pursuing research in the fields of speed, memory, and control, and the application of these fields to individual differences and aging. With the latest work from senior figures in the field, and a focus on fundamental topics in both teaching and research, the book will be valuable to students and scientists in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

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L'autore

John Duncan is at M.R.C. Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, U.K. . Louise Phillips is at School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, U.K. .

Contenuti

• Section I: Reaction time and mental speed
• 1: Roger Ratcliff, Anjali Thapar, Philip L. Smith & Gail McKoon: Ageing and response times: a comparison of sequential sampling models
• 2: David F. Hultsch, Michael A. Hunter, Stuart W. S. MacDonald & Esther Strauss: Inconsistency in response time as an indicator of cognitive ageing
• 3: Elizabeth A. Maylor & Derrick G. Watson: Ageing and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks
• 4: Mike Anderson & Jeff Nelson: Individual differences and cognitive models of the mind: using the differentiation hypothesis to distinguish general and specific cognitive processes
• 5: Ian J. Deary & Geoff Der: Reaction time parameters, intelligence aging and death: the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study
• 6: John Wearden: The wrong tree: time perception and time experience in the elderly
• Section II: Cognitive control and frontal lobe function
• 7: Stephen Monsell: The chronometrics of task-set control
• 8: Louise H. Phillips & Julie D. Henry: An evaluation of the frontal lobe theory of cognitive ageing
• 9: Paul W. Burgess, Jon S. Simons, Iroise Dumontheil & Sam J. Gilbert: The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function
• 10: John Duncan: Prefrontal cortex and Spearman's g
• Section III: Memory and age
• 11: Fergus I. M. Craik: On reducing age-related declines in memory and executive control
• 12: Alan Baddeley, Hilary Baddeley, Dino Chincotta, Simona Luzzi & Christobel Meikle: Working memory and ageing
• 13: Timothy J. Perfect & Helen C. Moon: The own-age effect in face recognition
• Section IV: Real-world cognition
• 14: Alan Kingstone, Daniel Smilek, Elina Birmingham, Dave Cameron & Walter Bischof: Cognitive ethology: giving real life to attention research
• 15: Peter McLeod, Peter Sommerville & Nick Reed: Are automated actions beyond conscious access?
• 16: Robert J. Hockey: Operator functional state: the prediction of breakdown in human performance

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198566425
• ISBN 13: 9780198566427
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Redattore: Duncan John
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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