Although peaks and troughs in cognitive performance characterize our daily functioning,
time-of-day fluctuations remain marginally considered in the domain of cognitive psychology …

A major view in cognitive psychology presumes the existence of limits on mental capacity,
limits that vary with circumstances and task demands and that largely determine the …

''Bigger is better.''So goes the message of many theoretical perspectives on working
memory, views that emphasize working memory as a ''mental workspace''which houses the …

The causes of variability of performance by individual subjects have rarely been
investigated, although excessive variability or inconsistency may be a functionally significant …

This well-established and accessible text has been completely revised in this expanded fifth
edition. Each chapter has been updated, often extensively, to reflect current thinking, and an …

Much research has indicated that aging is accompanied by decrements in memory
performance across a wide variety of tasks and situations. A dominant perspective is that …

Effective strategies for early detection of cognitive decline, if deployed on a large scale,
would have individual and societal benefits. However, current detection methods are …

Circadian and homeostatic sleep-wake regulatory processes interact in a fine tuned manner
to modulate human cognitive performance. Dampening of the circadian alertness signal and …

Memory retrieval can occur by at least two routes: a deliberate one, as when one attempts to
retrieve an event or fact, and an unintentional one, as when one's behavior is triggered by …

Background: Research suggests that variability in attention and working memory scores, as
seen across time points, may be a sensitive indicator of impairment compared with a …