1st Edition
Ageing and Executive Control A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Psychology Press
The empirical and theoretical analysis of executive control processes, dormant for many years, has grown to become one of the most fertile areas of research in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Because executive functions are thought to have a pervasive role in maintaining optimal information processing across many processing situations, issues related to executive control cut... Read more
Introduction; Frontal tests and models for cognitive ageing; A research strategy for investigating group differences in a cognitive construct: Application to ageing and executive processes; Is there an age deficit in the selection of mental sets? Adult age differences in goal activation and goal maintenance; The transient nature of executive control processes in younger and older Adults; Inhibitory control over the present and the past; Executive-process interactive control: A unified computational theory for answering 20 questions (and more) about cognitive ageing; Modelling cognitive control in task switching and ageing; Beyond resources: Formal models of complexity effects and age differences in working memory; Modelling age-related changes in information processing; Age-related changes in brain-behaviour relationships: Evidence from event-related functional MRI studies; Neurocognitive ageing and storage of executive processes; The impact of aerobic activity on cognitive function in older adults: A new synthesis based on the concept of executive control
Biography
Ulrich Mayr, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA. Daniel H. Spieler Stanford University, CA, USA. Reinhold Kliegl, University of Potsdam, Germany.
