Special issue on cognitive enhancers

Special Issue on Cognitive Disorders

CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 15, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2012 The editorial board of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal would like to present our last collection of articles for 2012, an issue devoted entirely to memory disorders. In this special publication (jointly with the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences), we are pleased to provide the latest recommendations from the fourth Canadian ...

Special Issue on Cognitive Engineering

Computer-based systems have changed the nature of the work undertaken at the human-machine interface. More than ever before, operators of complex sociotechnological systems are working in a multidimensional information space. Within aviation, the development of the glass cockpit was the forerunner of things to come. Glass interfaces now pervade all areas of aviation systems. Computerization has...

Special Issue on Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction

Selected Reports from the Journal-sponsored Symposium ALTHOUGH described more than 50 yr ago, postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) remains an enigma. The subject of a Rovenstine Lecture in 2003 and numerous panels at international meetings, POCD was again featured prominently at the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting in October 2006 as the topic for the Journal’s sponsor...

Special Issue on Cybernetics and Cognitive Informatics

—The three greatest theories in science and engineering developed in the 1940s are cybernetics, information theory, and systems theory. Cybernetics is the science of communication and control in humans, machines, organizations, and societies across the reductive hierarchy of neural, cognitive, functional, and logical levels. A contemporary form of cybernetics, known as cognitive informatics (CI...

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