Working Memory and Ageing (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Logie, Robert H.; Morris, Robin G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection contains chapters by major international level researchers in the field and represents the state-of-the-science on working memory and the ageing brain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134751891
• Artikelnr.: 41089122

Autorenporträt

Robert H. Logie is Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience, and Research Director for the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also Group Leader for Human Cognitive Ageing within the cross-council-funded Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. His research and teaching interests lie in the cognition of human memory in the healthy, ageing and damaged brain, focused on experimental behavioural studies of working memory. He has published over 170 peer reviewed papers, 50 book chapters and 12 books. Robin G. Morris is Professor of Neuropsychology at King's College London, UK, and Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at King's College Hospital, where he is Head of the Clinical Neuropsychology Department. He is also Head of Neuropsychology in the King's Health Partners Neurosciences Academic Group. His main interests are in the neuropsychology of memory and also of executive functioning, and he has conducted research on a range of patients with neuropsychological disorders, including those with focal brain damage, schizophrenia, cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease. He has published over 220 peer reviewed papers and 40 book chapters, and recently received the British Psychological Society Barbara Wilson Neuropsychology Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Logie & Morris
Introduction Angela Kilb & Moshe Naveh-Benjamin
The effects of divided attention on long-term memory in younger and older adults Anna Stigsdotter Neely & Lars Nyberg
Working Memory Training in Late Adulthood:A Behavioral and Brain Perspective
Irene E. Nagel and Ulman Lindenberger Functional neuroimaging investigations of age-related working memory decline Timothy A. Salthouse
Individual Differences in Working Memory and Aging Rebecca Charlton & Robin Morris
Structural correlates of age-related working memory decline Robert Logie & Mark Horne
What is and what is not affected by age in working memory Randall Engle
Commentary.