Attention and memory : an integrated framework / Nelson Cowan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowan, Nelson, author.

Series:

Oxford psychology series ; 26.

Oxford Psychology Series ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human information processing.

Memory.

Attention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Attention and Memory brings together and assesses past and present research on information processing, to formulate a model of this entire system.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. INTRODUCTION: MODELING MEMORY AND ATTENTION; 1.1 The fundamental relation between memory and attention; 1.2 The emergence of memory and attention in modern psychology; 1.2.1 Behaviorist movement; 1.2.2 Gestalt movement; 1.2.3 Empirical observations of capacity limits; 1.3 Modeling the processing of information; 1.3.1 Broadbent's 1958 model; 1.3.2 Modifications of Broadbent's (1958) model; 1.3.3 Abandonment of Broadbent's (1958) model; 1.3.4 A reconsideration of approaches to modeling: what is being modeled?; 1.3.5 On the role of models in scientific progress

1.4 The model of Cowan (1988)1.4.1 The article and the book; 1.4.2 Background of the modeling framework; 1.4.3 Cowan's (1988) formulation; 1.5 A comparison of Cowan (1988) with other modeling approaches; 1.5.1 Alternative graphic representations of the assumptions of Cowan (1988); 1.5.2 More explicit theories of memory and attention; 1.5.3 More extensive unified theories of cognition; 1.5.4 Partial-system models; 1.5.5 Alternative arrangements of components; 1.5.6 Strong modularity; 1.5.7 Summary remarks on model comparisons; 1.6 Key issues regarding memory and attention

1.6.1 Chapter 2: sensory memory1.6.2 Chapter 3: short-term storage; 1.6.3 Chapter 4: ""virtual"" short-term memory mechanisms; 1.6.4 Chapter 5: habituation and dishabituation of orienting; 1.6.5 Chapter 6: attention and long-term memory; 1.6.6 Chapter 7: attention and awareness; 1.6.7 Chapter 8: summary discussion including neurophysiological underpinnings of memory and attention; 1.6.8 Strategies for reading this book; PART I: TRANSIENT-MEMORY PHENOMENA; 2. SENSORY MEMORY PERSISTENCE; 2.1 Sensory memory in current cognitive psychology

2.2 Definition and distinguishing features of sensory memory2.3 Types of sensory memory and their durations; 2.4 Uses of sensory memory; 2.5 Neural representation of sensory memory; 2.6 Challenges to the concept of sensory memory; 3. MEMORY ACTIVATION AND ATTENTIONAL FOCUSING; 3.1 A brief history of short-term memory concepts; 3.2 Short-term memory limits according to cognitive psychology; 3.3 Cowan's (1988) conception of short-term memory; 3.4 Some unresolved issues in the Cowan (1988) approach; 3.5 Neurophysiology of short-term memory

4. ACTUAL VERSUS ""VIRTUAL"" SHORT-TERM MEMORY PHENOMENA4.1 A challenge to multiple-store accounts; 4.2 Arguments against the monistic view; 4.3 Where do we search for short-term memory?; 4.4 Refrain: what is short-term memory?; PART II: SELECTIVE ATTENTION PHENOMENA; 5. ATTENTION FILTERING AND ORIENTING; 5.1 The problem of attentional filtering; 5.2 Habituation of orienting as a selective filter; 5.3 Evidence linking orienting and selective attention; 5.4 Some unresolved issues related to the habituation hypothesis; 6. ATTENTION AND LONG-TERM MEMORY

6.1 Dissociations between direct and indirect memory measures

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

9786610529766

0-19-534425-1

1-280-52976-8

0-19-506760-6

0-19-802322-7

1-4294-0144-3

OCLC:

318373430