Measuring the Mind Speed, Control, and Age

by Duncan, John; Phillips, Louise; McLeod, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780198566427
• ISBN10: 0198566425
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 & Gail McKoon


2. Inconsistency in response time as an indicator

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Section 1 Reaction time and mental speed
1 Aging and response times: a comparison of sequential sampling models	3	(30)
Roger Ratcliff, Anjali Thapar, Philip L. Smith, and Gail McKoon
2 Inconsistency in response time as an indicator of cognitive aging	33	(26)
David F. Hultsch, Michael A. Hunter, Stuart W.S. MacDonald, and Esther Strauss
3 Aging and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks	59	(30)
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	89	(26)
Mike Anderson and Jeff Nelson
5 Reaction time parameters, intelligence, ageing, and death: the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study	115	(22)
Ian J. Deary and Geoff Der
6 The wrong tree: time perception and time experience in the elderly	137	(24)
John H. Wearden
Section 2 Cognitive control and frontal lobe function
7 The chronometrics of task-set control	161	(30)
Stephen Monsell
8 An evaluation of the frontal lobe theory of cognitive aging	191	(26)
Louise H. Phillips and Julie D. Henry
9 The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function	217	(32)
Paul W Burgess, Jon S. Simons, Iroise Dumontheil, and Sam J. Gilbert
10 Prefrontal cortex and Spearman's g	249	(26)
John Duncan
Section 3 Memory and age
11 On reducing age-related declines in memory and executive control	275	(18)
Fergus I.M. Craik
12 Working memory and aging	293	(24)
Alan Baddeley, Hilary Baddeley, Dino Chincotta, Simona Luzzi, and Christobel Meikle
13 The own-age effect in face recognition	317	(24)
Timothy J. Perfect and Helen C. Moon
Section 4 Real-world cognition
14 Cognitive ethology: giving real life to attention research	341	(18)
Alan Kingstone, Daniel Smilek, Elina Birmingham, Dave Cameron, and Walter F. Bischof
15 Are automated actions beyond conscious access?	359	(14)
Peter McLeod, Peter Sommerville, and Nick Reed
16 Operator functional state: the prediction of breakdown in human performance	373	(22)
G. Robert J. Hockey
Index	395