Imagery and spatial cognition : methods, models, and cognitive assessment / edited by Tomaso Vecchi, Gabriella Bottini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vecchi, Tomaso, 1966-

Bottini, Gabriella.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 66.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagery (Psychology).

Space perception.

Visual perception.

Mental representation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 435 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., c2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The relationships between perception and imagery, imagery and spatial processes, memory and action: these are the main themes of this text. The interest in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience on imagery and spatial cognition has remarkably increased in the last decades. Different areas of research contribute to the clarification of the multiple cognitive processes subserving spatial perception and exploration, and to the definition of the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning these cognitive functions. The aim of this book is to provide the reader (post-graduate students as well as experts) with a complete overview of this field of research. It illustrates how brain, behaviour and cognition interact in normal and pathological subjects in perceiving, representing and exploring space.(Series B).

Contents:

Imagery and Spatial Cognition

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

Introduction

Methodology of imagery and visuo-spatial functions

Early methods for assessing imagery and nonverbal abilities

Imagery questionnaires

Performance tests of intelligence

Tests of spatial ability

Conclusions

References

The assessment of imagery and visuo-spatial working memory functions in children and adults

Instruments and materials used to assess imagery and visuospatial memory

The Visuospatial Working Memory Test Battery (BEMViS)

Studies carried out with the use of the BEMViS battery

Application of the battery to the analysis of single cases with visuospatial deficits

Tests for a more in depth assessment

Notes

Do we only remember where we left our things when we expect to need them again?

Verbal interference effects

Verbal mechanisms in remembering objects and object-position links

Remembering locations when focusing on time

Acknowledgements

Note

Variations on the image scanning paradigm

Wider implications of the findings of image scanning experiments

Two contrasting scanning processes

Scanning along straight or complex paths

Conclusion

The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in spatial cognition

TMS studies of spatial extinction

Suppression of extinction with TMS in patients with unilateral brain damage

TMS studies of visual spatial neglect

Suppression of visual neglect with TMS in patients with unilateral brain damage

Models and components of imagery and visuo-spatial processes.

Neural bases and cognitive mechanisms of Human Spatial Memory

Part A

Part B

Instead of epilogue

Working memory, imagery and visuo-spatial mechanisms

Models of Working Memory (WM)

The Working Memory Model proposed by Cornoldi and Vecchi

VSWM, imagery and perception

A brief history of imagery

The study of mental imagery and its relationship withVSWM

Perception and VSWM

Alternative approaches to (Visuo-Spatial) Working Memory

VSWM and consciousness

The episodic buffer

Serial recall in visual short-term memory

Imagery strategies in serial recall tasks

Is the episodic buffer a mental imagery system?

Current directions in episodic buffer research

Visuo-spatial components of numerical representation

Numbers and imagery: Insight from introspective reports

The mental number line hypothesis

Numerical influence in visuo-spatial tasks

Numerical magnitude and space: Evidence from anatomical and neuropsychological data

Critical aspects on the spatial-numerical association: Order vs. magnitude

Motor components and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes

The effect of metric distance on visuo-spatial span

Movement and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes

Aging and visuo-spatial abilities

Aging and Visuo-spatial working memory

An interpretation of age differences in VSWM: Active processes

Can complexity explain the age differences between passive storage and active manipulation?

The influence of expertise on VSWM aging research

Imagery and aging

Aging and imagery processes.

Type of images and aging

Imagery and memory in aging

Object-location memory in ageing and dementia

Assessment of object-location memory in older participants

Object-location memory in ageing: binding problem or context deficit?

Implicit and explicit memory for object locations in healthy older adults

Object-location memory in dementia

Neural processes related to (pathological) aging and spatial memory

Visuospatial and constructional impairments in mental deterioration

Visuospatial and visuoconstructional disorders

Constructional disturbances in dementia

Mechanisms of constructional disturbances in dementia

Using visual imagery as a mnemonic for verbal associative learning

Individual differences in imagery use

Predictive validity of self-reported imagery

Available data on self-reported imagery use during PA learning

Measurement of imagery mediator production

Age and gender differences in IDQ scales

Correlations of imagery questionnaires with PA mediator production

Prediction of PA imagery production

Neuropsychological aspects of space representation

Spatial navigation

Spatial navigation: Cognitive and neuropsychological aspects

Concluding remarks

Visuomotor control of spatially directed action

Introduction: Two functions served by vision

Reaching to a single target

On-line adjustments during reaching

Delayed reaching

Reaching between obstacles

Visual peripersonal space

Visual perceptual processing in unilateral spatial neglect

Sensory and perceptual processing in unilateral spatial neglect.

Processing of illusions in patients with spatial neglect

Illusions in neglect

Illusions of horizontal extent as models of neglect: Illusions of neglect

The anatomical basis of visual illusions

The impairment of the body image in the unilateral neglect syndrome

The body representation: Theoretical issues

Disorders of the body representation

Simulating object-centred neglect with head-centred coding of space based on non-linear gaze-dependent units

Neural-computational simulation of object-centred neglect with a basis function (BF) network

Simulations by Real-Position (RP) network

Omission vs. shift of details in spatial representations

``Detection'' vs. ``Localization'' in common sense and in the classical literature

``Shifts'' vs. ``omissions'' in (perceptual) spatial tasks

``Shifts'' vs. ``omissions'' in the auditory modality

``Shifts'' vs. ``omissions'' in motor programming: Directional hypokinesia vs. directional hypometria?

Name index

Subject index

The series Advances in Consciousness Research.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612155550

9781282155558

1282155555

9789027293435

9027293430

OCLC:

319492421