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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456336603321

Titolo

Methodology of frontal and executive function / / edited by Patrick Rabbitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Sussex, U.K. : , : Psychology Press, , 1997

ISBN

1-135-47203-3

1-280-04756-9

0-203-34418-9

0-585-10249-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RabbittPatrick

Disciplina

612.8/25

Soggetti

Attention

Cognition

Aging - Psychological aspects

Memory

Neuropsychology

Memory disorders in old age

Dementia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Methodologies and Models in the Study of Executive Function; Cognitive Models of Ageing and Frontal Lobe Deficits; Testing Central Executive Functioning with a Pencil-and-paper Test; Theory and Methodology in Executive Function Research; Ageing and Executive Functions: A Neuroimaging Perspective; Sustained Attention and the Frontal Lobes; How Specific are the Memory and Other Cognitive Deficits Caused by Frontal Lobe Lesions?; Normal Age-related Memory Loss and its Relation to Frontal Lobe Dysfunction

Do ~Frontal Tests~ Measure Executive Function?: Issues of Assessment and Evidence from Fluency TestsA Neural Systems Approach to the Cognitive Psychology of Ageing Using the CANTAB Battery; Behavioural



Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume reflects the pressure to develop useful models and methodologies to study executive behaviour - the ability to update information in working memory in order to control selective attention to formulate plans of action and to monitor their efficient execution. Many models are based on the concept of a single ""central executive"" that manges these functions; others propose a number of independent ""working memory systems"" that each serve one task or activity but not others.; This book is a collection of essays by active researchers who discuss their own work on the definition of ""e