Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition: Attention, Memory, and Executive Control (The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality)

Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition: Attention, Memory, and Executive Control (The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality)
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Страниц
 
600
ISBN
 
1441912096
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Новые поступления - 2010 г. Здоровье духовное и физическое

Описание:

As cognitive models of behavior continue to evolve, the mechanics of cognitive exceptionality, with its range of individual variations in abilities and performance, remains a challenge to psychology. Reaching beyond the standard view of exceptional cognition equaling superior intelligence, the Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition examines the latest findings from psychobiology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience, for a comprehensive state-of-the-art volume. Breaking down cognition in terms of attentional mechanisms, working memory, and higher-order processing, contributors discuss general models of cognition and personality. Chapter authors build on this foundation as they revisit current theory in such areas as processing effort and general arousal and examine emerging methods in individual differences research, including new data on the role of brain plasticity in cognitive function. The possibility of a unified theory of individual differences in cognitive...

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