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Measuring the Mind: Speed, control, and age

Measuring the Mind: Speed, control, and age


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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.

Table of Contents:
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

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"This is a useful book that brings together significant studies and influential researchers in the areas of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience."--Doody's "This is a useful book that brings together significant studies and influential researchers in the areas of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience."--Doody's "This is a useful book that brings together significant studies and influential researchers in the areas of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience."--Doody's "This is a useful book that brings together significant studies and influential researchers in the areas of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience."--Doody's


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198566427
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 627 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198566425
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2005
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 418
  • Sub Title: Speed, control, and age
  • Width: 157 mm


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