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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784550503321

Autore

Jensen Arthur Robert

Titolo

Clocking the mind [[electronic resource] ] : mental chronometry and individual differences / / by Arthur R. Jensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Elsevier, 2006

ISBN

1-280-63562-2

9786610635627

0-08-046372-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Classificazione

77.31

Disciplina

612.8

Soggetti

Time perception

Neuropsychology

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Clocking the Mind: Mental Chronometry and Individual Differences; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. A Brief Chronology of Mental Chronometry; Chapter 2. Chronometric Terminology and Paradigms; Chapter 3. Reaction Time as a Function of Experimental Conditions; Chapter 4. The Measurement of Chronometric Variables; Chapter 5. Chronometry of Mental Development; Chapter 6. Chronometry of Cognitive Aging; Chapter 7. The Heritability of Chronometric Variables; Chapter 8. The Factor Structure of Reaction Time in Elementary Cognitive Tasks

Chapter 9. Correlated Chronometric and Psychometric VariablesChapter 10. Sensory Intake Speed and Inspection Time; Chapter 11. Theory of the Correlation Between Response Time and Intelligence; Chapter 12. The Relation of RT to Other Psychological Variables; Chapter 13. Clinical and Medical Uses of Chronometry; Chapter 14. Standardizing Chronometry; References; Jensen References on Chronometry not cited in the text; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mental Chronometry (MC) comprises a variety of techniques for measuring the speed with which the brain processes information.First developed in mid-1800, MC was subsequently eclipsed by more complex and practically useful types of psychometric tests stemming



from Alfred Binet. This class of mental tests, however, has no true metric relating the test scores to any specific properties of the brain per se. The scores merely represent an ordinal scale, only ranking individuals according to their overall performance on a variety of complex mental tasks. The resulting scores represent no more th