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Cognitive gerontology and attentional inhibition
— a reply to Burke and McDowd | | Author(s) | Rose Zacks, Lynn Hasher |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 6, November 1997 |
| Pages | pp P274-P283 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental ageing ; Ageing process ; Theory. |
| Annotation | The authors respond to the two critiques previous to this article in this issue of Journals of Gerontology. They begin with a history of the origins of the inhibitory deficit view and of its development since 1988, as well as with an account of some particularly useful findings, and of their preferred mode of theory building, which is non-formal and empirically driven. Against this background, they find many points of agreement with Burke and McDowd, but also many points of disagreement. For example, they agree with Burke that many aspects of language comprehension and production are age invariant, but they disagree that all such findings count against their viewpoint. Likewise, they readily acknowledge the problems in measuring inhibition documented by McDowd, but do not feel that this is a fatal problem as long as the inhibitory deficit view continues to be viable within the basic attentional literature, continues to permit the integration of a large body of existing data, and continues to generate new predictions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980121409 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: D6: BG: 4D |
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