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Summary
Summary
This book examines the major progress made in recent psychological science in understanding the cognitive control of thought, emotion, and behavior and what happens when that control is diminished as a result of aging, depression, developmental disabilities, or psychopathology. Each chapter of this volume reports the most recent research by a leading researcher on the international stage. Topics include the effects on thought, emotion, and behavior by limitations in working memory, cognitive control, attention, inhibition, and reasoning processes. Other chapters review standard and emerging research paradigms and new findings on limitations in cognitive functioning associated with aging and psychopathology. The explicit goal behind this volume was to facilitate cross-area research and training by familiarizing researchers with paradigms and findings in areas different from but related to their own.
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Engle (Georgia Institute of Technology) and his fellow editors were motivated to compile this book after they attended an international conference in Poland on cognitive psychology. They took a complex base of literature and brought to the task of understanding it scholars from North America and Europe. Chapter 1 provides an excellent brief tutorial for all readers, especially those outside the mainstream of cognitive psychology. The remaining 13 essays are divided into three sections covering thought, emotion, and behavior. The contributors were asked to go beyond the usual presentation and include the paradigms in the studies they present. Unfortunately, many of the discussions do not include a description of the number of subjects in each category and the subjects' economic, social, and educational levels. Each chapter includes references. Though it is not an easy read, this book will stimulate discussion. Opening communication across specialties is certainly a worthwhile objective. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Graduate students, research/faculty, professionals. G. M. Greenberg emerita, Western Michigan University
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
| 1 Cognitive limitations in aging and psychopathology: an introduction and a brief tutorial to research methodsRandall W. Engle and Grzegorz Sedek and Ulrich von Hecker and Daniel N. McIntosh |
| Part I Working Memory and Cognitive Functions |
| 2 Working memory capacity in hot and cold cognitionNash Unsworth and Richard P. Heitz and Randall W. Engle |
| 3 Age differences and Individual differences in cognitive functionsKlaus Oberauer |
| 4 Stress and working memory: between-person and within-person relationshipsMartin Sliwinski and Joshua Smyth and Robert S. Stawski and Christina Wasylyshyn |
| Part II Aging and Psychopathology of Cognitive Control |
| 5 The aging of cognitive control: studies of conflict processing, goal neglect, and error monitoringRobert West and Ritvij Bowry |
| 6 Cognitive control and schizophrenia: psychological and neural mechanismsDeanna M. Barch and Todd S. Braver |
| 7 Aging and varieties of cognitive control: a review of meta-analyses on Resistance to interference, coordination, and task switching, and an experimental exploration of age-sensitivity in the newly identified process of focus switchingPaul Verhaeghen and John Cerella and Kara L. Bopp and Chandramallika Basak |
| 8 An ecological approach to studying aging and dual-task performanceKaren Z. H. Li and Ralf Th. Krampe and Albina Bondar |
| 9 Cognitive performance after preexposure to uncontrollability and in a depressive state: going with a simpler 'plan B'Daniel N. McIntosh and Grzegorz Sedek and Susan Fojas and Aneta Brzezicka-Rotkiewicz and Miroslaw Kofta |
| Part III Attention, Inhibition, and Reasoning Processes |
| 10 The nature of attentional bias in human anxietyElaine Fox and George A. Georgiou |
| 11 Inhibition, rumination, and mood regulation in depressionJutta Joormann |
| 12 Aging and inhibitory processes in memory, attentional and motor tasksElizabeth A. Maylor and Friederike Schlaghecken and Derrick G. Watson |
| 13 Impairments of memory and reasoning in patients with neuropsychiatric illness: disruptions of dynamic cognitive bindingJames A. Waltz |
| 14 Generative reasoning as influenced by depression, aging, stereotype threat and prejudiceUlrich von Hecker and Grzegorz Sedek and Kinga Piber-Dabrowska and Sylwia Bedynska |
