Measuring the Mind
Speed, control, and age
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 July 2005
- ISBN 9780198566427
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages418 pages
- Size 235x157x23 mm
- Weight 627 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones, tables and line drawings 0
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Short description:
What are the fundamental mechanisms of decision making, processing speed, memory and cognitive control? How do these mechanisms differ in individuals, and how do they change as people age? What are the neural mechanisms underlying these functions? How do these functions relate to the demands of everyday, 'real life' behaviour? This volume brings together leading cognitive psychologists to discuss these topics in both teaching and research. This book will be valuable to students and scientists in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
MoreLong description:
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
Ageing and response times: a comparison of sequential sampling models
Inconsistency in response time as an indicator of cognitive ageing
Ageing and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks
Individual differences and cognitive models of the mind: using the differentiation hypothesis to distinguish general and specific cognitive processes
Reaction time parameters, intelligence aging and death: the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study
The wrong tree: time perception and time experience in the elderly
Section II: Cognitive control and frontal lobe function
The chronometrics of task-set control
An evaluation of the frontal lobe theory of cognitive ageing
The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function
Prefrontal cortex and Spearman's g
Section III: Memory and age
On reducing age-related declines in memory and executive control
Working memory and ageing
The own-age effect in face recognition
Section IV: Real-world cognition
Cognitive ethology: giving real life to attention research
Are automated actions beyond conscious access?
Operator functional state: the prediction of breakdown in human performance
