Clocking the mind mental chronometry and individual differences
Mental Chronometry (MC) comprises a variety of techniques for measuring the speed with which the brain processes information.First developed in mid-1800, MC was subsequently eclipsed by more complex and practically useful types of psychometric tests stemming from Alfred Binet. This class of mental t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798135306719 |
| Sumario: | Mental Chronometry (MC) comprises a variety of techniques for measuring the speed with which the brain processes information.First developed in mid-1800, MC was subsequently eclipsed by more complex and practically useful types of psychometric tests stemming from Alfred Binet. This class of mental tests, however, has no true metric relating the test scores to any specific properties of the brain per se. The scores merely represent an ordinal scale, only ranking individuals according to their overall performance on a variety of complex mental tasks. The resulting scores represent no more th |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781280635625 9786610635627 9780080463728 |
