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

• Pubblicazione: East Sussex, U.K. : , : Psychology Press, , 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8/25
• Soggetto topico: Attention; Cognition; Aging - Psychological aspects; Memory; Neuropsychology; Memory disorders in old age; Dementia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RabbittPatrick
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Methodology of frontal and executive function
• ISBN: 1-135-47203-3; 1-280-04756-9; 0-203-34418-9; 0-585-10249-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456336603321
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