The Mental Representation of Goals | What timing conditions, interference, and intentions reveal about the nature of working memory

Daniel Cassenti

ISBN 10: 3639103815 / ISBN 13: 9783639103816

Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

The Mental Representation of Goals | What timing conditions, interference, and intentions reveal about the nature of working memory | Daniel Cassenti | Taschenbuch | Englisch | VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | EAN 9783639103816 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 101690701

Inhaltsangabe:

Working memory acts as the central executive officer of cognition. It drives human action by coordinating perception, memory, and motor processes with a prioritized set of instructions as events unfold over time. There is still much to explore on the nature of working memory. These studies shed light on one important piece of working memory that has been infrequently explored, the importance of goals and how they are represented in working memory. Four experiments manipulated timing conditions, memory loads, and extraneous events in an event counting paradigm to reveal that greater time to process information also leads to over-rehearsal, distraction, and a tendency to make more errors. These results imply a redefinition of working memory¿s central executive function from more traditional accounts. The results also drive compelling conclusions addressing storage, linking, and triggering of goal representations. Number representation, error detection, and cognitive modeling are explored.

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Titel: The Mental Representation of Goals | What ...
Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu