The Elements of Cognitive Aging - Meta Analyses of Age Related Differences in Processing Speed Their

Informationen zum Autor Associate Professor of Psychology, Syracuse University Klappentext This book brings together, for the first time, everything we know about aging and processing speed, in a vast quantitative overview. Topics include slowing in elementary mental tasks and tasks of executive control, mental slowing over the lifespan, and how age-related slowing impacts processing in more complex aspects of cognition. Zusammenfassung This book brings together, for the first time, everything we know about aging and processing speed, in a vast quantitative overview. Topics include slowing in elementary mental tasks and tasks of executive control, mental slowing over the lifespan, and how age-related slowing impacts processing in more complex aspects of cognition. CHAPTER 1 ; AGING AND PROCESSING SPEED: HISTORY, METHODOLOGY, AND OUTLOOK ; CHAPTER 2 ; AGE-RELATED SLOWING IN A QUASI-RANDOM SAMPLE OF STUDIES ; CHAPTER 3 ; IS AGE-RELATED SLOWING REAL? ; INVESTIGATING THREATS TO THE VALIDITY OF BRINLEY SLOPES ; CHAPTER 4 ; THE AGING MODEL HUMAN PROCESSOR: ; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN THE SPEED OF ELEMENTARY OPERATIONS ; CHAPTER 5 ; TOWARDS A SPARSE ONTOLOGY OF AGE EFFECTS IN ELEMENTARY PROCESSES: ; THE DIMENSIONALITY OF THE AGING MODEL HUMAN PROCESSOR ; CHAPTER 6 ; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN THE SPEED OF EXECUTIVE CONTROL ; CHAPTER 7 ; LIFESPAN TRAJECTORIES ; CHAPTER 8 ; THE ROLE OF GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES ; CHAPTER 9 ; AGE-RELATED SLOWING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO COMPLEX ABILITIES ; CHAPTER 10 ; THE ELEMENTS OF COGNITIVE AGING: CONCLUSIONS ; REFERENCES ; INDEX

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul Verhaeghen, Verhaeghen Paul
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.10.2013
• EAN: 9780195368697
• ISBN: 978-0-19-536869-7
• Seiten: 384
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Angewandte Psychologie; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer; MEDICAL / Neurology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Psychology of ageing, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Cognition and cognitive psychology