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The other side of the error term : aging and development as model systems in cognitive neuroscience /

It has been said more than once in psychology that one person's effect is another person's error term. By minimising and occasionally ignoring individual and group variability cognitive psychology has yieled many fine achievements. However, when investigators are working with special popul...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Raz, Naftali
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1998.
Colección:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 125.
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Sumario:It has been said more than once in psychology that one person's effect is another person's error term. By minimising and occasionally ignoring individual and group variability cognitive psychology has yieled many fine achievements. However, when investigators are working with special populations, the subjects, and the unique nature of the sample, come into focus and become the goal in itself. For developmental psychologists, gerontologists and psychopathologists, research progresses with an eye on their target populations of study. Yet every good study in any of these domains inevitably has another dimension. Whenever a study is designed to turn a spotlight on a special population, the light is also shed on the mainstream from which the target deviates. This book examines what we can learn about general and universal phenomena in cognition and its brain substrates from examining the odd, the rare, the transient, the exceptional and the abnormal.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 458 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780444825223
0444825223
9780080538273
0080538274