Methodology of frontal and executive function /
edited by Patrick Rabbitt.
- Hove, East Sussex, U.K. : Psychology Press, �1997.
- 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Methodologies and Models in the Study of Executive Function; Cognitive Models of Ageing and Frontal Lobe Deficits; Testing Central Executive Functioning with a Pencil-and-paper Test; Theory and Methodology in Executive Function Research; Ageing and Executive Functions: A Neuroimaging Perspective; Sustained Attention and the Frontal Lobes; How Specific are the Memory and Other Cognitive Deficits Caused by Frontal Lobe Lesions?; Normal Age-related Memory Loss and its Relation to Frontal Lobe Dysfunction.
This volume is a collection of essays by active researchers who discuss their own work on the definition of "executive" or "controlled" behaviours, and on the relation of these behaviours to specific areas of the frontal cortex.