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This volume is a collection of essays by active researchers who discuss their own work on the definition of "executive" or "controlled" behaviours, and on the relation of these behaviours to specific areas of the frontal cortex.
List of contents
Testing central executive functioning with a pencil-and-paper test, A. Baddeley et al; theory and methodology in executive function research, P.W. Burgess; executive and non-executive functions in normal and pathological ageing - a neuroimaging investigation, J.K. Foster et al; sustained attention and the frontal lobes, T. Manley, I.H. Robertson; how specific are memory and other cognitive deficits caused by frontal lobe lesions? A.R. Mayes, I. Daum; normal age-related memory loss and its relation to frontal lobe dysfunction, A. J. Parkin; do "frontal tests" measure executive function? - issues and assessment and evidence from fluency tests, L.H. Phillips; a neural systems approach to the cognitive psychology of ageing - studies with CANTAB on large samples of the normal elderly population, T.W. Robbins et al; studies of executive function in normal old age, C. Askew, P. Rabbitt; behavioural assessment of the dysexecutive syndrome, B.A. Wilson.
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Patrick Rabbitt
Summary
This volume is a collection of essays by active researchers who discuss their own work on the definition of "executive" or "controlled" behaviours, and on the relation of these behaviours to specific areas of the frontal cortex.
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'[T]he book offers many delights and is rewarding. Rabbitt has assembled a large and distinguished set of writers and, as might be expected, the scholarly standards are high. Rabbitt's introductory chapter in particular is a model of clarity warmly recommended.' - Review in British Journal of Development Psychology, Vol 17, Iss 4, 1999, by Ian Stuart-Hamilton, Worcester College of Higher Eduction.
