Statistical And Process Models for Cognitive Neuroscience And Aging

by Wenger,Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780805854138
• ISBN10: 0805854134
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-30
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Statistical and Process Models for Cognitive Neuroscience and Agingaddresses methodological techniques for researching cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, the biophysics and structure of the nervous system, the physiology of memory, and the analysis of EEG data. Each chapter, written by the expert in the area, provides a carefully crafted introduction to the subject at hand and the key methodological challenges facing that area of study. Although the chapters describe sophisticated techniques, each is accessible to scientists from a variety of fields. The editors' goal is to expose researchers working on a range of issues associated with cognitive aging to a variety of approaches and technologies, in an effort to cross disciplinary boundaries and further research in cognitive aging. Intended for researchers in cognitive, behavioral, and computational neuroscience, psychometrics, gerontology, cognitive, health, and developmental psychology, radiology, and medical research, this book also serves as a text for graduate level courses in cognitive science and cognitive aging.

Author Biography

Michael Wenger is a Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Binghamton University (State University of New York). Dr. Wenger is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. His research focuses on perceptual and memory processes, facial perception and memory, and perceptual and cognitive expertise.
Christof Schuster is a Professor at the University of Giessen, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Technical University of Berlin in 1997. That same year he received the Young Scientist Award of the methods group of the German Psychological Association. A fellow of the Psychometric Society, Dr. Schuster's research focuses on statistical models for rater agreement data.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Longitudinal Study in Cognition and Aging	p. 1
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Building and Testing Biologically Plausible Computational Models of Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, and Behavioral Data	p. 15
Modeling the Role of Acetylcholine and Hippocampal Theta Rhythm in Memory-Guided Behavior	p. 59
Modeling Amnesia: Connectionist and Mathetmatical Approaches	p. 119
Who Does What: Taking Measures	p. 163
Generalized Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation Methods for Analyzing Multichannel Brain Signals	p. 201
Quantifying Scaling Properties of Neurophysiological Time Series	p. 273
Applications of Independent Component Analysis to Electroencephalography	p. 313
Author Index	p. 335
Subject Index	p. 347
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