Neuropsychological Studies of Nonfocal Brain Damage - Dementia and Trauma (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)

In summary, considerable controversy and research have been generated from the automatic/effortful distinction. Hasher and Zacks (1979) initially stated that all manipulations (e. g. , practice, individual differences such as age, orienting instructions) must produce null effects in order to satisfy the criteria that a process is "automatic. " However, Zacks et al. (1984) have more recently noted that automatic processes may range in degree from relative insensitivity to task and subject variables (e. g. , frequency processing) to those that are more vulnera- ble to disruptive effects (e. g. , temporal processing). A review of the literature reveals that individuals are sensitive to frequency information even if manipUla- tions alter the slope of the judgments. Perhaps the application of dual-task metho- dology to the measurement of capacity demands will be useful in classifying processes along an attentional continuum. Moreover, there has been a tendency to dichotomize automatic/effortful processes rather than to characterize them as ranging from low to high attentional demands. Recent evidence (Maki & Ostby, 1987) suggests that attention may be important only in the initial (early) stages of processing frequency information. Therefore, a major difference that may emerge between automatic and effortful processing could be the degree of sus- tained attention required from individuals. In the following section, we review the findings obtained in the application of the automatic/effortful framework to the elderly and neurological/psychiatric populations.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Springer Series in Neuropsychology
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1988
Editors:	Harry Whitaker
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	308
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-8753-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Rehabilitation
LSN:	1-4613-8753-1
Barcode:	9781461387534

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