Visuo-spatial Working Memory (Essays in Cognitive Psychology) - Hardcover

Logie, Robert H.

 
9780863771071: Visuo-spatial Working Memory (Essays in Cognitive Psychology)

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This essay follows a line of reconciliation and positive critique in exploring the possible overlap of mental imagery and working memory. Theoretical development in the book draws on data from both cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology.

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Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

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Representation of the visual and spatial properties of our environment is a pivotal requirement of everyday cognition. We can mentally represent the visual form of objects and we can extract information from several of the senses as to the location of objects in relation to ourselves and to other objects nearby. For some of those objects we can reach out and manipulate them. We can also imagine ourselves manipulating objects in advance of doing so, or even when it would be impossible to do so physically. The problem posed to science is how these cognitive operations are accomplished, and proffered accounts lie in two essentially parallel research endeavours, working memory and imagery. This essay follows a line of reconciliation and positive critiquing in exploring the possible overlap between mental imagery and working memory. Theoretical development in the book draws on data from both cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology. The aim is to stimulate debate, to address directly a number of assumptions that hitherto have been implicit, and to assess the contribution of the concept of working memory to our understanding of these intriguing core aspects of human cognition.

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ISBN 10:  1138876933 ISBN 13:  9781138876934
Verlag: Psychology Press, 2015
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