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This volume reflects the pressure to develop useful models and methodologies to study executive behaviour - the ability to update information in working memory in order to control selective attention to formulate plans of action and to monitor their efficient execution. Many models are based on the concept of a single ""central executive"" that manges these functions; others propose a number of independent ""working memory systems"" that each serve one task or activity but not others.; This book is a collection of essays by active researchers who discuss their own work on the definition of ""e

Attention. --- Cognition. --- Aging --- Memory. --- Neuropsychology. --- Memory disorders in old age. --- Dementia. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Age-associated memory impairment --- Memory disorders in the aged --- Cognition disorders in old age --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Concentration (Psychology) --- Flow (Psychology) --- Apperception --- Arousal (Physiology) --- Educational psychology --- Memory --- Distraction (Psychology) --- Interest (Psychology) --- Psychological aspects. --- Diseases --- Cerebral hemispheres --- Human information processing --- #PBIB:1999.1 --- Brain function localization --- Cerebral localization --- Localization of cerebral functions --- Phrenology --- Localization of functions --- Functional localization --- Information processing, Human --- Bionics --- Information theory in psychology --- Perception --- Brain hemispheres --- Split brain --- Cerebral hemispheres. --- Human information processing. --- Experimentele psychologie --- Medische psychologie --- Localization of functions. --- denken, begripsvorming en problem solving. --- psychiatrie.