Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This is a useful book that brings together significant studies and influential researchers in the areas of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience."--Doody's
Table of Contents
Section I: Reaction time and mental speed 1. Ageing and response times: a comparison of sequential sampling models, Roger Ratcliff, Anjali Thapar, Philip L. Smith and Gail McKoon
2. Inconsistency in response time as an indicator of cognitive ageing, David F. Hultsch, Michael A. Hunter, Stuart W. S. MacDonald and Esther Strauss
3. Ageing and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks, Elizabeth A. Maylor and Derrick G. Watson
4. Individual differences and cognitive models of the mind: using the differentiation hypothesis to distinguish general and specific cognitive processes, Mike Anderson and Jeff Nelson
5. Reaction time parameters, intelligence aging and death: the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study, Ian J. Deary and Geoff Der
6. The wrong tree: time perception and time experience in the elderly, John Wearden
Section II: Cognitive control and frontal lobe function
7. The chronometrics of task-set control, Stephen Monsell
8. An evaluation of the frontal lobe theory of cognitive ageing, Louise H. Phillips and Julie D. Henry
9. The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function, Paul W. Burgess, Jon S. Simons, Iroise Dumontheil and Sam J. Gilbert
10. Prefrontal cortex and Spearman's g, John Duncan
Section III: Memory and age
11. On reducing age-related declines in memory and executive control, Fergus I. M. Craik
12. Working memory and ageing, Alan Baddeley, Hilary Baddeley, Dino Chincotta, Simona Luzzi and Christobel Meikle
13. The own-age effect in face recognition, Timothy J. Perfect and Helen C. Moon
Section IV: Real-world cognition
14. Cognitive ethology: giving real life to attention research, Alan Kingstone, Daniel Smilek, Elina Birmingham, Dave Cameron and Walter Bischof
15. Are automated actions beyond conscious access?, Peter McLeod, Peter Sommerville and Nick Reed
16. Operator functional state: the prediction of breakdown in human performance, Robert J. Hockey