本书原定价235.00美元,净重920克,馆藏自然旧。【图书分类:心理过程与心理状态】Component cognitive processes have played a critical role in the development of experimental aging research and theory in psychology as attested by articles published on this theme. However, in the last five to ten years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of articles attempting to isolate a single factor (or small subset of factors) responsible for age differences in information processing. This view of aging is frequently termed the complexity model of the generalized slowing model, the primary assumption being that age differences in cognition are due simply to a relatively larger performance decrement on the part of older adults (compared to younger adults) as task complexity increases. Because generalized complexity theorists have questioned the utility of using component cognitive processes as theoretical constructs, the editors feel it is time to restate why component cognitive processes are critical to any thorough understanding of age differences in cognition. Thus the present edited volume represents an attempt to demonstrate the utility of the process-specific approach to cognitive aging. Central to this effort are illustrations of how regression analyses may provide evidence for general slowing by maximizing explained variance while at the same time obscuring local sources of variance.
The book concentrates on age differences in word and language processing, because these factors relate to reading which is a critical cognitive process used in everyday life. Furthermore, age differences in word and language processing illustrate the importance of taking component cognitive processes into consideration. The breadth of coverage of the book attests to the wide range of cognitive processes involved in word and language processing.
Reviews: Concentrating on age differences in word and language processing because of its critical importance in daily life, demonstrates the utility of the process-specific approach to analyzing cognitive aging, which has been questioned of late by generalized complexity theorists. The 16 studies cover the traditional information-processing, neuropsychological, and psychophysiological approaches to understanding such tasks as word sensation and perception, word cognition, and language processing. They include critical reviews, empirical reports, and position papers. Of interest to researchers in gerontology, and various branches of psychology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents: Acknowledgment Preface Addresses of Senior Authors 1 Why latent models are needed to test hypotheses about the slowing of word and language processes in older adults 1 2 Visual word encoding and the effect of adult age and word frequency 30 3 Age differences in orthographic and frequency neighborhoods 72 4 Aging and language performance: From isolated words to multiple sentence contexts 87 5 Semantic processes in implicit memory: Aging and meaning 110 6 Evidence for task specificity in age-related slowing: A review of speeded picture-word processing studies 143 7 Aging and the distribution of resources in working memory 171 8 Neuropsychological implications of word recognition deficits 187 9 Stimulus encoding in Alzheimer's disease: A multichannel view 199 10 Aging, Alzheimer's disease, and word recognition: A review of the recent literature 220 11 Semantic priming in Alzheimer's disease: Meta-analysis and theoretical evaluation 247 12 Indirect memory tests in Alzheimer's disease 272 13 Using event-related brain potentials to draw inferences about human information processing 294 14 Do the waves begin to waver? ERP studies of language processing in the elderly 314 15 Memory and aging: An event-related brain potential perspective 345 16 Do general slowing functions mask local slowing effects? A chronopsychophysiological perspective 390 Author Index 427 Subject Index 447
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