Working Memory and Human Cognition (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (766 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195100999 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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William F. Pillow, Jr. said Five Stars. Good reference. comprehensive, yet very rich review All the chapters provide a excellent review for different aspects of thee research on working memory. Major authors summarize the state of art in different subdomains.. great overall picture After reading Conway's "cognitive models of memory", I thought nothing else could come close. This book does. Don't skip around; it's meant to be read in order. The various models in Conway's book find coherence here. By page 120 you will have a superb cognitive model that will synthesize a lot of material that was out there on the tangent. This book is a winner; and that's saying something after Conway. Get thi
Robert Logie discusses the theoretical and empirical utility of separating working memory into an articulatory loop, a phonological store, and a visuo-spatial sketchpad into visual and spatial subsystems. Lynn Hasher argues in favor of the new inhibitory model, with evidence drawn from the literature on aging and pathology that demonstrates parallels between memory disorders and normal memory functioning. Engle's empirical studies, in turn, bear directly on the positions of Carpenter, Hasher, and Logie. As interest in working memory is increasing at a rapid pace, an open discussion of the central issues involved is both useful and timely. She focuses on findings from reading comprehension and memory tasks suggesting that working memory is used to represent the set of skills and strategies necessary for complex tasks, while retaining residual capacity for use as a storage buffer. Patricia Carpenter provides evidence for a process view of working memory, arguing that both task-specific processing and general processing capabilities can account for the full range of working memory phenomena. This new volume in the Counterpoints series compares and contrasts different conceptions of working memory, generally recognized as the human cognitive system responsible for temporary storage of information. Randall Engle addresses the issue of whether working memory resources are required for retrieval of information or whether that task is relatively automatic. This work serves
The authors present high-quality background information regarding their ideas of working memory, as well as a number of references to the research findings on which these ideas are based. From a practical standpoint, this book will be of use to several audiences: clinicians, researchers, and students. Christensen in the American Journal of Psychology"The purpose of this book is to compare and contrast the different conceptions of working memory that have evolved over the last 20 years in the field of cognitive psychology. A major strength of the volume is its extensive coverage of working memory theories and research."--Contemporary Psychology"The discussion focuses specifically on three ongoing debates, namely, whether working memory is a single-component or multiple-component system, whether working memory is structurally and functionall
He has published numerous papers and book chapters exploring the properties of attention and working memory capacity and their relationship to intelligence. Following a 21 year tenure at the University of South Carolina, he moved to Atlanta, where he took the position of Professor and Chair of the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. . Wickens. Engle receivedhis Ph.D. Randall W. in1973 from Ohio State University, where his mentor was D.D. Together with facul