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Executive Functions in Health and Disease provides a comprehensive review of both healthy and disordered executive function. It discusses what executive functions are, what parts of the brain are involved, what happens when they go awry in cases of dementia, ADHD, psychiatric disorders, traumatic injury, developmental disorders, cutting edge methods for studying executive functions and therapies for treating executive function disorders. It will appeal to neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, neuroscientists and researchers in cognitive psychology.

Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Clinical neuropsychology.

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"Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal. These are skills that develop from infancy. While 'reading' has been extensively studied in psychology literature, 'writing' has been somewhat neglected, despite a lack of capability in this area being linked to poverty and social exclusion. This book is the first comprehensive and state-of-the-art review of the relationship between executive function skills and writing. It explores its role across the lifespan, addressing all groups of writers, from children and those with learning and language difficulties, to adults and elders. It considers theoretical viewpoints, assessment and methodological issues, and developmental disorders, and closes with insightful commentary chapters that draw future directions for investigating executive functions. Written by internationally recognized scholars in the field, this is a new and innovative contribution which will provide essential reading among researchers, educators, and graduate students interested in understanding the cognitive underpinnings of writing throughout the lifespan"--

Cognitive psychology --- Writing --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Cognition

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« Cet ouvrage de´crit les fonctions exe´cutives et s'attachent pour chacune aux troubles associe´s et a` l'e´tiologie des troubles, ainsi qu'a` la reme´diation psychologique et neuropsychologique chez l'adulte et l'enfant. Les fonctions exe´cutives forment un ensemble fondamental de la psychologie. Elles permettent de faire varier le traitement et le comportement de l'information a` chaque instant en fonction des objectifs actuels d'une manie`re adaptative, pluto^t que de rester rigide et inflexible. Les fonctions exe´cutives sont ne´cessaires pour effectuer des activite´s telles que la planification, l'organisation, l'e´laboration de strate´gies, pour e^tre attentif et se rappeler les de´tails, et pour ge´rer le temps et l'espace. En fait, elles sont sollicite´es en permanence. »-- Résumé de l'éditeur.

Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Infant psychology. --- Case studies.

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Every mathematician (beginner, amateur, and professional alike) thrills to find simple, elegant solutions to seemingly difficult problems. Such happy resolutions are called 'aha! solutions,' a phrase popularized by mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner. Aha! solutions are surprising, stunning, and scintillating: they reveal the beauty of mathematics. This book is a collection of problems with aha! solutions. The problems are at the level of the college mathematics student, but there should be something of interest for the high school student, the teacher of mathematics, the 'math fan,' and anyone else who loves mathematical challenges. This collection includes 100 problems in the areas of arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus, probability, number theory, and combinatorics. The problems start out easy and generally get more difficult as you progress through the book. A few solutions require the use of a computer. An important feature of the book is the bonus discussion of related mathematics that follows the solution of each problem. This material is there to entertain and inform you or point you to new questions. If you don’t remember a mathematical definition or concept, there is a Toolkit in the back of the book that will help.

Problem solving. --- Mathematics --- Methodology --- Psychology --- Decision making --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology)

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Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Neuropsychology --- Attention --- Memory --- Problem solving