In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications extracts from books, key articles, research findings, practical and theoretical contributions.
Professor Patrick Rabbitt has been a prominent contributor to knowledge of cognitive performance and cognitive ageing for over half a century. He has made a range of significant contributions to geronotological research, from the development of information processing theories in the 1950s and 1960s to a new understanding of decision making and the ageing process in subsequent decades.
This collection of his research articles represents a review of how work in cognitive performance and cognitive ageing has developed in the past 50 years. Whilst the nature of scientific research means that some of the questions posed have since been answered, Rabbitt adds introductory sections to articles which contextualise its place in the subject area and offer a personal view on the evolution of the field.
This book is important because it provides a perspective on the development of cognitive research and the ageing process through the work of an active researcher in the field. It will interest all students and researchers interested in cognitive development and gerontology.
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1 An age-decrement in the ability to ignore irrelevant information |
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2 Learning to ignore irrelevant information |
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3 Modulation of selective attention by sequential effects in visual search tasks |
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4 Hand dominance, attention and the choice between responses |
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5 Interference between binary classification judgments and some repetition effects in a serial choice reaction time task |
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6 There are stable individual differences in performance variability, both from moment to moment and from day to day |
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7 Some errors of perceptual analysis in visual search can be detected and corrected |
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8 Processing a display even after you make a response to it. How perceptual errors can be corrected |
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9 Consciousness is slower than you think |
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10 Does it all go together when it goes? The Nineteenth Bartlett Memorial Lecture |
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11 The University of Manchester longitudinal study of cognition in normal healthy old age, 1983 through 2003 |
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12 Death, dropout, and longitudinal measurements of cognitive change in old age |
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13 Balance marks cognitive changes in old age because it reflects global brain atrophy and cerebro-arterial blood-flow |
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14 Age-associated losses of brain volume predict longitudinal cognitive declines over 8 to 20 years |
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15 White matter lesions account for all age-related declines in speed but not in intelligence |
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16 Effects of global atrophy, white matter lesions, and cerebral blood flow on age-related changes in speed, memory, intelligence, vocabulary, and frontal function |
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Patrick Rabbitt was a member of scientific staff at the MRC Applied Psychology unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, from 1962 to 1967; worked for the University of Oxford, UK, as a lecturer in psychology (1968-1982); the University of Durham, UK, as Professor of Psychology and head of department (1982-1983); and the University of Manchester, UK, as the Research Chair in Gerontology and Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Age and Cognitive Performance Research Centre (1983-2004). He is currently Associated Researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.
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