The Other Side of the Error Term
Aging and Development as Model Systems in Cognitive Neuroscience
- 1st Edition, Volume 125 - April 23, 1998
- Latest edition
- Editor: N. Raz
- Language: English
It has been said more than once in psychology that one person's effect is another person's error term. By minimising and occasionally ignoring individual and group variability… Read more
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Description
Description
It has been said more than once in psychology that one person's effect is another person's error term. By minimising and occasionally ignoring individual and group variability cognitive psychology has yieled many fine achievements. However, when investigators are working with special populations, the subjects, and the unique nature of the sample, come into focus and become the goal in itself. For developmental psychologists, gerontologists and psychopathologists, research progresses with an eye on their target populations of study. Yet every good study in any of these domains inevitably has another dimension. Whenever a study is designed to turn a spotlight on a special population, the light is also shed on the mainstream from which the target deviates.
This book examines what we can learn about general and universal phenomena in cognition and its brain substrates from examining the odd, the rare, the transient, the exceptional and the abnormal.
Readership
Readership
For developmental psychologists, gerontologists and psychopathologists.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Chapter headings: Introduction (N. Raz). Developmental Instability and Phenotypic Variation in Neural Organization (R.A. Yeo, S.W. Gangestad). Animal Models of Developmental Dyslexia: Lessons from Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience (G.D. Rosen). Electrophysiological Correlates of Early Speech Perception and Language Development During Infancy and Early Childhood (D.L. Molfese). Developmental and Individual Differences in Short-term Memory (J.S. Saults, N. Cowan). Lifespan Studies of Mental Chronometry: Insights Derived from Chronopsychophysiology (T.R. Bashore et al.). Differential Contribution of Frontal and Medial Temporal Lobes to Memory: Evidence from Focal Lesions and Normal Aging (E.L. Glisky). Does Working Memory Work in Language Comprehension? Evidence from Behavioral Neuroscience (A. Wingfield et al.). Problem Solving, Inhibition, and Frontal Lobe Function (J. Dorfman).
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 125
- Published: July 3, 2011
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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N. Raz
Affiliations and expertise
Neuropsychology of Ageing Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USAView book on ScienceDirect
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