Measuring the Mind
Speed, Control, and Age
Published on 1. August 2005
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-19-856641-0 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones, num. line drawings
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-856641-0 (9780198566410)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
SECTION I: REACTION TIME AND MENTAL SPEED; 1. Ageing and response times: a comparison of sequential sampling models; 2. Inconsistency in response time as an indicator of cognitive ageing; 3. Ageing and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks; 4. Individual differences and cognitive models of the mind: using the differentiation hypothesis to distinguish general and specific cognitive processes; 5. Reaction time parameters, intelligence ageing and death: the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study; 6. The wrong tree: time perception and time experience in the elderly; SECTION II: COGNITIVE CONTROL AND FRONTAL LOBE FUNCTION; 7. The chronometrics of task-set control; 8. An evaluation of the frontal lobe theory of cognitive aging; 9. The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function; 10. Prefrontal cortex and Spearman's g; SECTION III: MEMORY AND AGE; 11. On reducing age-related declines in memory and executive control; 12. Working memory and aging; 13. The own-age effect in face recognition; SECTION IV: REAL-WORLD COGNITION; 14. Cognitive ethology: giving real life to attention research; 15. Are automated actions beyond conscious access?; 16. Operator functional state: the prediction of breakdown in human performance