Aleksandra Gruszka

Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition: Attention, Memory, and Executive Control - The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality Aleksandra Gruszka 2012 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Review Quotes: From the reviews: This handbook, part of the Springer Series on Human Exceptionality, looks at exceptionality in terms of cognition, specifically attention and working memory. The target audience includes researchers, clinicians, and graduate students in psychology and cognitive sciences, including clinical psychology and neuropsychology, personality and social psychology, neuroscience, and education. It is fairly comprehensive and contains hundreds of references so readers can follow up on topics of interest. If you love cognitive science and neuroscience this is the book for you. (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody s Review Service, January, 2011) Jacket Description/Back: As cognitive models of behavior continue to evolve, the mechanics of cognitive exceptionality, with its range of individual variations in abilities and performance, remains a challenge to psychology. Reaching beyond the standard view of exceptional cognition equaling superior intelligence, the "Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition" examines the latest findings from psychobiology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience, for a comprehensive state-of-the-art volume. Breaking down cognition in terms of attentional mechanisms, working memory, and higher-order processing, contributors discuss general models of cognition and personality. Chapter authors build on this foundation as they revisit current theory in such areas as processing effort and general arousal and examine emerging methods in individual differences research, including new data on the role of brain plasticity in cognitive function. The possibility of a unified theory of individual differences in cognitive ability and the extent to which these variables may account for real-world competencies are emphasized, and commentary chapters offer suggestions for further research priorities. Researchers, clinicians, and graduate students in psychology and cognitive sciences, including clinical psychology and neuropsychology, personality and social psychology, neuroscience, and education, will find the "Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition" an expert guide to the field as it currently stands and to its agenda for the future. Review Quotes: From the reviews: This handbook, part of the Springer Series on Human Exceptionality, looks at exceptionality in terms of cognition, specifically attention and working memory. The target audience includes researchers, clinicians, and graduate students in psychology and cognitive sciences, including clinical psychology and neuropsychology, personality and social psychology, neuroscience, and education. It is fairly comprehensive and contains hundreds of references so readers can follow up on topics of interest. If you love cognitive science and neuroscience this is the book for you. (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody s Review Service, January, 2011)"Biographical Note: Aleksandra Gruszka, Ph. D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. She has a particular interest in psychology of creativity and neuropsychology of Parkinson s disease. In 2004, Dr Aleksandra Gruszka was awarded a Wellcome Travelling Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust, which enabled her to spend two years at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom. As a result, a number of collaborative projects with Dr. Adrian Owen were undertaken, including behavioral testing of novel psychological paradigms, functional neuroimaging studies of attentional mechanisms and clinical investigations in Parkinson s disease using both techniques. She has published in the field of individual differences in cognition (Creativity Research Journal), and she has co-authored several books and chapters on creativity (Creativity Training, International Handbook of Creativity, Creativity s Global Correspondents, 2002) and neuropsychology (Neuropsychology, Neuropsychologia). Gerald Matthews, Ph. D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on human performance, cognitive models of personality, the assessment of acute states of stress and emotion, and emotional intelligence. He has published more than 200 journal articles and book chapters on these topics. He has co-authored books on Attention and Emotion: A Clinical Perspective, Personality Traits, Human Performance: Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences and Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth. His book on Attention and Emotion won the 1998 British Psychological Society Book Award, and the book on Emotional Intelligence was commended by the Association of American Publishers in their 2002 awards. He is also editor of Cognitive Science Perspectives on Personality and Emotion. He is the elected Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. He has acted as a consultant for several organizations, including Procter and Gamble and the MIT Electronics Research Lab. He is also an associate editor for Personality and Individual Differences, and a consulting editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Blazej Szymura, Ph. D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland and Warsaw School for Social Psychology, Poland. The main areas of his research interests are: preattentional and attentional mechanisms, unconscious information processing, cognitive correlates of temperamental and personality traits, creativity and innovation. He has co-authored books on Cognitive Psychology, Individual Differences Psychology, Creativity Training and published as first author or as co-author nearly 30 journal articles (Neuropsychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Polish Psychological Bulletin) as well as book chapters (Advances in Personality Studies). He was honored by Jagiellonian University (1999) and Warsaw University (2006) for the best publication of the year. He has acted as an associate editor for the special issue of Studia Psychologiczne on Aspects of Attention. He has also lead many creativity training and invention sessions for managers and employees of several major organizations (Leroy Merlin, Motorola and Masterfood)."Table of Contents: Part I. General Models of Individual Differences in Cognition -- 1. Individual Differences in Cognition: in Search of a General Model of Behaviour Control / Philip J. Corr -- 2. Individual Differences in Cognition: New Methods for Examining the Personality-Cognition Link / William Revelle, Joshua Wilt, Allen Rosenthal -- 3. The Relationship Between Intelligence and Pavlovian Temperament Traits: The Role of Gender and Level of Intelligence / Magdalena Kaczmarek, Jan Strelau, Agnieszka Miklewska -- 4. General Models of Individual Differences in Cognition: The Commentaries / Philip Corr, William Revelle, Joshua Wilt, Allen Rosenthal -- Part II. Individual Differences in Cognition from a Neurophysiological Perspective -- 5. Neuroscientific Approaches to the Study of Individual Differences in Cognition and Personality / Aljoscha C. Neubauer, Andreas Fink -- 6. Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Individual Differences in Working Memory and Executive Control: Conceptual and Methodological Issues / Tal Yarkoni, Todd S. Braver -- 7. Emotional Intelligence and Gender: A Neurophysiological Perspective / Norbert JauSovec, Ksenija JauSovec -- 8. Learned Irrelevance Revisited: Pathology-Based Individual Differences, Normal Variation and Neural Correlates / Aleksandra Gruszka, Adam Hampshire, Adrian M. Owen -- 9. Post-Soviet Psychology and Individual Differences in Cognition: A Psychophysiological Perspective / Almira Kustubayeva -- 10. Individual Differences in Cognition from a Neurophysiological Perspective: The Commentaries / Todd S. Braver, Tal Yarkoni, Aleksandra Gruszka, Adam Hampshire, Adrian M. Owen, Norbert JauSovec, Almira Kustubayeva, Aljoscha C. Neubauer, Andreas Fink -- Part III. Individual Differences in Attentional Mechanisms -- 11. Psychopathology and Individual Differences in Latent Inhibition: Schizophrenia and Schizotypality / R. E. Lubow, Oren Kaplan -- 12. Attentional Control Theory of Anxiety: Recent Developments / Michael W. Eysenck -- 13. Task Engagement, Attention, and Executive Control / Gerald Matthews, Joel S. Warm, Lauren E. Reinerman, Lisa K. Langheim, Dyani J. Saxby -- 14. Individual Differences in Resource Allocation Policy / Blazej Szymura -- 15. The Relationship of Attention and Intelligence / Karl Schweizer -- 16. Intelligence and Cognitive Control / Adam Chuderski, Edward Necka -- 17. Individual Differences in Attention: The Commentaries / Michael W. Eysenck, Gerald Matthews, Edward Necka, Adam Chuderski, Karl Schweizer, Blazej Szymura -- Part IV. Individual Differences in Working Memory Functioning and Higher-Order Processing -- 18. Trait and State Differences in Working Memory Capacity / Malgorzata Ilkowska, Randall W. Engle -- 19. Adrift in the Stream of Thought: The Effects of Mind Wandering on Executive Control and Working Memory Capacity / Jennifer C. McVay, Michael J. Kane -- 20. The Unique Cognitive Limitation in Subclinical Depression: The Impairment of Mental Model Construction / Grzegorz Sedek, Aneta Brzezicka, Ulrich von Hecker -- 21. Working Memory Capacity and Individual Differences in Higher-Level Cognition / Jaroslaw Orzechowski -- 22. Motivation Towards Closure and Cognitive Resources: An Individual Differences Approach / Malgorzata Kossowska, Edward Orehek, Arie W. Kruglanski -- 23. Mood as Information: The Regulatory Role of Personality / Magdalena Marszal-Wisniewska, Dominika Zajusz -- 24. Autobiographical Memory: Individual Differences and Developmental Course / Mary L. Courage, Mark L. Howe -- 25. Individual Differences in Working Memory and Higher-Ordered Processing: The Commentaries / Mary L. Courage, Mark L. Howe, Malgorzata Ilkowska, Randall W. Engle, Malgorzata Kossowska, Edward Orehek, Arie W. Kruglanski, Jennifer C. McVay, Michael J. Kane, Magdalena Marszal-Wisniewska, Dominika Zajusz, Jaroslaw Orzechowski, Grzegorz Sedek, Aneta Brzezicka -- 26. Conclusion: The State of the Art in Research on Individual Differences in Executive Control and Cognition / Gerald Matthews, Aleksandra Gruszka, Blazej Szymura -- Author Index -- Subject Index. Publisher Marketing: Presenting a unique approach to the subject of cognition, this volume reaches beyond the standard view of exceptional cognition equaling superior intelligence. It examines the latest findings from psychobiology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience.

Contributor Bio:  Matthews, Gerald Gerald Matthews is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati.