Perspectives on Fundamental Processes in Intellectual Functioning, Volume 1 A Survey of Research Approaches

Subjects:

• Psychology » Sensation & Perception
• Psychology » Cognitive Psychology

Reviews:

• This book should appeal to all researchers in the area, broadly defined, who would like to learn more about activities in programs similar to their own and gain exposure to those taking different conceptual or methodological approaches. The book should also appeal to interested graduate students and advanced undergraduates, perhaps stimulating some practical ideas as their own research interests begin to develop.With supplemental reading, the volume could provide the foundation for an exciting advanced seminar. Some of the chapters are outstanding in every sense, and these alone make investment in the volume worthwhile.
  —AJMR

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• PART I. INFORMATION PROCESSING
• Memory Competencies and Deficiencies: A Conceptual Framework and the Potential of Connectionist Models, Norman W. Bray, Kevin D. Reilly, Kathryn L. Fletcher, Lisa F. Huffman, Lisa A. Grupe, Mark F. Villa and Vivek Anumolu
• Facilitating Visual Attention, Sal A. Soraci, Michael T. Carlin and Laura J. Wiltse
• Prenatal Cognitive Development, Eugene K. Emory and Marlyne K. Israelian
• Model-Based Measurement of Group Differences: An Application Directed Towards Understanding the Information-Processing Mechanisms of Developmental Dyslexia
• PART II. NEUROSCIENCE
• Brain Imaging and Classification of Mental Retardation, Richard J. Haier, Kay Hazen, James Fallon, Michael T. Alkire, Michael J. Schell and Ira Lott
• Event-Related Brain Potentials and Language Comprehension: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to the Study of Intellectual Functioning, W. Caroline West, Timothy B. O'Rourke and Phillip J. Holcomb
• Emergent Properties of Brain Function and Development, Curtis K. Deutsch
• PART III. ANIMAL MODELS
• Processes of Visual Cognition in the Pigeon, Robert G. Cook, Jeffrey S. Katz and Brian R. Cavoto
• Behavior Analytic Assessment of Intellectual Functioning and Disability: An Interface between Research with Nonhumans and Humans with Limited Language, William J. McIlvane, Curtis K. Deutsch, R.W. Serna and W.V. Dube
• PART IV. LANGUAGE PROCESSING
• Applications of a Lexical Principles Framework for Studying Categorization and Word Learning in Different Populations, Krista M. Wilkinson and Helen Tager-Flusberg
• Phonological Processing: A Modular Ability?, Frances A. Conners, Michael D. Carr, Aimin Wang and Beverly S. Wyatt
• Emergent Behavior and Intellectual Functioning: Stimulus Classes, Generalization, and Transfer, Harry A. Mackay, Robert Stromer and Richard W. Serna
• PART V. APPLIED COGNITION Harry A. Mackay, Robert Stromer and Richard W. Serna
• PART V. APPLIED COGNITION
• Designing Environments to Reveal, Support, and Expand our Children's Potentials, John Bransford and The Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt
• Transfer as a Measure of Intellectual Functioning, Adrienne Y. Lee
• The Roles of Knowledge and Strategy in Cognitive Performance: The Case of Digit Span, Richard K. Wagner
• Author Index
• Subject Index