Information processing speed in clinical applications
By: edited by John DeLuca & Jessica Kalmar.
Contributors: DeLuca, John, 1956-; Kalmar, Jessica.
Series: Studies on neuropsychology, neurology, and cognition
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781841694764
Subjects: Human information processing; Brain -- Physiology; Intellect -- Physiological aspects; Cognition -- Physiological aspects; Aging -- Physiological aspects; Mental Processes -- physiology; Neuropsychology -- methods; Aging -- physiology; Brain -- physiology; Cognition -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of processing speed and relationship to intelligence / Amanda R. O'Brien & David S. Tulsky; title: Assessment tools and research methods for human information processing speed / Thomas A. Martin & Shane S. Bush; title: Information processing speed: measurement issues and its relationships with other neuropsychological constructs / Heath A. Demaree, Thomas W. Frazier & Courtney E. Johnson; title: The genetics of information processing speed in humans / Danielle Posthuma & E. de Gues; title: Speed of processing in childhood and adolescence: nature, consequences, and implications for understanding atypical development / Robert V. Kail; title: Processing speed and the digit symbol substitution test in schizophrenia / Dwight Dickinson & James M. Gold; title: Information processing speed in multiple sclerosis: a primary deficit? / Jessica H. Kalmar & Nancy D. Chiaravalloti; title: Traumatic brain injury and processing speed / Glynda J. Kinsella; title: Frontal-subcortical determinants of processing speed in Parkinson's disease / Roderick K. Mahurin; title: Information processing speed and aging / Timothy A. Salthouse & David J. Madden; title: Everyday life applications and rehabilitation of processing speed deficits: aging as a model for clinical populations / Karlene Ball & David E. Vance; title: Information processing speed: how fast, how slow, and how come? / John DeLuca.