Measuring the Mind: Speed, control, and age

by John Duncan (Editor), Louise Phillips (Editor), Peter McLeod (Editor)

Overview

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 to

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191568626
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	07/07/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

Table of Contents

• Section I: Reaction time and mental speed
• 1: Roger Ratcliff, Anjali Thapar, Philip L. Smith and Gail McKoon: Ageing and response times: a comparison of sequential sampling models
• 2: David F. Hultsch, Michael A. Hunter, Stuart W. S. MacDonald and Esther Strauss: Inconsistency in response time as an indicator of cognitive ageing
• 3: Elizabeth A. Maylor and Derrick G. Watson: Ageing and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks
• 4: Mike Anderson and 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 and 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 and Julie D. Henry: An evaluation of the frontal lobe theory of cognitive ageing
• 9: Paul W. Burgess, Jon S. Simons, Iroise Dumontheil and 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 and Christobel Meikle: Working memory and ageing
• 13: Timothy J. Perfect and Helen C. Moon: The own-age effect in face recognition
• Section IV: Real-world cognition
• 14: Alan Kingstone, Daniel Smilek, Elina Birmingham, Dave Cameron and Walter Bischof: Cognitive ethology: giving real life to attention research
• 15: Peter McLeod, Peter Sommerville and Nick Reed: Are automated actions beyond conscious access?
• 16: Robert J. Hockey: Operator functional state: the prediction of breakdown in human performance