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Edited By
P.A. Allen, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA
T.R. Bashore, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA
Included in series
Advances in Psychology, 110
Description
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.
Contents
PART I: Traditional Information Processing Approaches.
1. Why latent models are needed to test hypotheses about the slowing of
word and language processes in older adults (D.L. Fisher et al.). 2. Visual word encoding and the effect of adult age and word
frequency (P.A. Allen et al.). 3. Age differences in orthographic and frequency neighborhoods (L.M. Stadtlander). 4. Aging and
language performance: From isolated words to multiple sentence contexts (G. Kellas et al.). 5. Semantic processes in implicit
memory: Aging and meaning (D.B. Mitchell). 6. Evidence for task specificity in age-related slowing: A review of speeded picture-word
processing studies (P.C. Amrhein). 7. Aging and the distribution of resources in working memory (E.A.L. Stine).
PART II: Neuropsychological
Approaches.
8. Neuropsychological implications of word recognition deficits (M.B. Patterson, D.N. Ripich). 9. Stimulus encoding in
Alzheimer's disease: A multichannel view (G.C. Gilmore). 10. Aging, Alzheimer's disease, and word recognition: A review of the recent
literature (F.R. Ferraro). 11. Semantic priming in Alzheimer's disease: Meta-analysis and theoretical evaluation (B.A. Ober, G.K. Shenaut).
12. Indirect memory tests in Alzheimer's disease (M. Hartman, M.L. Pirnot).
PART III: Psychophysiological Approaches.
13. Using
event-related brain potentials to draw inferences about human information processing (K.R. Ridderinkhof, T.R. Bashore). 14. Do the waves
begin to waver? ERP studies of language processing in the elderly (J.W. King, M. Kutas). 15. Memory and aging: An event-related brain
potential perspective (D. Friedman, M. Fabriani). 16. Do general slowing functions mask local slowing effects? A chronopsychophysiological
perspective (T.R. Bashore, F. Smulders). Author index. Subject index.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, publication date: SEP-1995
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-81766-2
ISBN-10: 0-444-81766-2
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND
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