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Age, working memory and the Tower of London task
Phillips, L.; Gilhooly, K.; Logie, R.H.; Della Sala, S.; Wynn, V. (2003)The current study explores the role of three components of working memory in age differences in an executive task, the Tower of London (TOL). The TOL task is sensitive to frontal lobe damage, and is widely used to measure ... -
Assessing patients' participation and quality of decision-making: insights from a study of routine practice in diverse settings
Entwistle, V.A.; Watt, I.S.; Gilhooly, K.; Bugge, C.; Haites, N.; Walker, A.E. (2004)In the context of a qualitative study exploring patients’ participation in decision-making, we investigated how people interpret and respond to structured questions about decision-making about their health care. Seventy-four ... -
Detecting elder financial abuse : Cues used by health, social care and banking professionals in classifying cases as true instances of financial abuse.
Gilhooly, M. L.; Cairns, D.; Davies, M.; Harries, P.; Gilhooly, K.; Gilbert, A.; Stanley, D. (2011-11-02)The aim of this study was to examine decision-making by health, social care and banking professionals in relation to the detection of elder financial abuse. Three research questions guided this study: 1 What are the cues ... -
Differentiating insight from non-insight problems
Gilhooly, K.; Murphy, P. (2005)This study aimed to investigate whether a range of tasks that have been generally classed as requiring insight form an empirically separable group of tasks distinct from tasks generally classed as non-insight. In this ... -
Divergent thinking: strategies and executive involvement in generating novel uses for familiar objects
Gilhooly, K.; Fioratou, E.; Anthony, S.; Wynn, V. (2007)A protocol analysis study of divergent thinking in an Alternative Uses task was carried out with a think aloud group (N = 40) and a control silent group (N=64). The groups did not differ in fluency or novelty of idea ... -
The effects of adult aging and induced positive and negative mood on planning
Phillips, L.; Smith, L.; Gilhooly, K. (2002)Changes in executive functions have been found in older adults and also in young adults experiencing positive or negative mood states. The current study investigated the hypothesis that older adults would show greater ... -
Executive functions in insight versus non-insight problem solving: an individual differences approach
Gilhooly, K.; Fioratou, E. (2009)This study investigated the roles of the executive functions of inhibition and switching and of verbal and visuo-spatial working memory capacities in insight and non-insight tasks. Eighteen insight tasks, 10 non-insight ... -
Factors influencing prescribing decisions in the treatment of depression : a social judgement theory approach
Smith, L.; Gilhooly, K.; Walker, A.E. (2003) -
Identifying occupational therapists' referral priorities in community health
Harries, P.; Gilhooly, K. (2003)Occupational therapists in British community mental health teams have been debating how the most effective services can be targeted at the most needy clients. This paper presents the results of a quantitative study that ... -
Key factors influencing decision making in relation to elder financial abuse : A case scenario study of certainty, likelihood of taking action, and action taken.
Gilhooly, M. L.; Davies, M.; Harries, P.; Gilhooly, K.; Cairns, D. (2011-11)Little is know about the factors that influence decision making by health, social care and banking professionals in relation to detecting and preventing elder financial abuse. The research questions for this study were, ... -
Regression versus fast and frugal models of decision-making : the case of prescribing for depression
Smith, L.; Gilhooly, K. (2006) -
Training novices to make expert, occupationally focused, community mental health referral decisions
Harries, P.; Gilhooly, K. (2011)Introduction: Currently, British health policy requires services to be prioritised according to an individual's level of need. This is particularly necessary for community mental health services, where referral demand far ... -
Verbalization and problem solving: insight and spatial factors
Gilhooly, K.; Fioratou, E.; Henretty, N. (2010)Two groups of participants attempted eight examples of each of four different problem types formed by combining insight v. non-insight and verbal v. spatial factors. The groups were given different verbalization instructions ... -
Visuospatial and verbal working memory in the five disc Tower of London task: an individual-differences approach
Gilhooly, K.; Wynn, V.; Phillips, L.; Logie, R.H.; Della Sala, S. (2002)This paper reports a study of the roles of visuo-spatial and verbal working memory capacities in solving a planning task - the five-disc Tower of London (TOL) task. An individual differences approach was taken. Sixty adult ...