| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Contents |
1. The childhood of procedural metamemory / Wolfgang Schneider -- 2. The validity of metacognitive predictions of widespread learning and long-term retention / Lynda K. Hall and Harry P. Bahrick -- 3. Control processes explored by the study of closed-head-injury patients / Carlo Umilt?and Franca Stablum -- 4. Putative functions of the prefrontal cortex : historical perspectives and new horizons / Stephen Darling [and others] -- 5. The role of metacognitive processes in the regulation of memory performance / Asher Koriat and Morris Goldsmith -- 6. Illusory memories : a cognitive neuroscience analysis / Daniel L. Schacter -- 7. The impact of metacognitve reflection on cognitive control / Cesare Cornoldi -- 8. Efffect of acute alcohol intoxication on recall and on judgments of learning during the acquisition of new information / Thomas O. Nelson [and others] -- 9. Insight and metacognition / Janet Metcalfe |
| Summary |
Control processes are those mental functions that allow us to initiate, monitor, and prioritize mental activities. They are crucial to normal mental functioning. A better understanding of the nature of control processes and their deficits is important for clinical work and for an adequate theory of consciousness. Previously, control processes have been examined within the frameworks of two parallel but independent paradigms: those of cognitive psychology and of neuropsychology. Cognitive psychologists have stressed the theoretical and empirical nature of normal unimpaired control processes; n |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Metacognition.
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Cognitive neuroscience.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Cognitive neuroscience
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Metacognition
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mazzoni, Giuliana.
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Nelson, Thomas O
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| ISBN |
9781317778431 |
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131777843X |
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