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Raz, Naftali; Lindenberger, Ulman – Psychological Bulletin, 2011
Salthouse (2011) critically reviewed cross-sectional and longitudinal relations among adult age, brain structure, and cognition (ABC) and identified problems in interpretation of the extant literature. His review, however, missed several important points. First, there is enough disparity among the measures of brain structure and cognitive…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Brain, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies
Mislevy, Robert J.; Huang, Chun-Wei – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
Advances in cognitive research increase the need for assessment that can address the processes and the strategies by which persons solve problems. Several psychometric models have been introduced to handle claims cast in information-processing terms, explicitly modeling performance in terms of theory-based predictions of performance. Cognitively…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Psychometrics
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Hiris, Eric; Krebeck, Aurore; Edmonds, Jennifer; Stout, Alexandra – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
In separate studies, observers viewed upright biological motion, inverted biological motion, or arbitrary motion created from systematically randomizing the positions of point-light dots. Results showed that observers (a) could learn to detect the presence of arbitrary motion, (b) could not learn to discriminate the coherence of arbitrary motion,…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Kinesthetic Perception, Cognitive Processes, Biomechanics