Working memory, thought, and action / Alan Baddeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baddeley, Alan D., 1934- author.

Contributor:

Baddeley, Alan D., 1934-

Series:

Oxford psychology series ; no. 45.

Oxford psychology series ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short-term memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (785 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Working Memory, Thought, and Action' is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volume on the model he created (with Graham Hitch) discusses the developments that have occurred within the model in the past twenty years, and places it within a broader context.Working memory is a temporary storage system that underpins our capacity for coherent thought. Some 30 years ago, Baddeley and Hitch proposed a way of thinking about working memory that has proved to be both valuable and influential in its application to practical problems. This

Contents:

Cover; OXFORD PSYCHOLOGY SERIES; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1; Introduction and overview; 1.1 Some history; 1.2 Multi-component working memory; 1.3 The multi-component model; 1.4 Conclusions; 2 ;Why do we need a phonological loop?; 2.1 The evolutionary relevance of the loop; 2.2 Language acquisition; 2.3 Sublexical short-term memory; 2.4 The problem of serial order; 2.5 Chaining models; 2.6 Contextual models; 3 The phonological loop: challenges and growing points; 3.1 Nairne's critique; 3.2 The word length effect

3.3 Disrupting the phonological loop 3.4 The irrelevant speech effect; 3.5 The phonological loop: an overview; 3.6 Conclusion; 4 Visuospatial short-term memory; 4.1 The case for a separating visuospatial and verbal working memory; 4.2 Fractionating visuospatial working memory; 4.3 Memory for spatial location; 4.4 Object-based short-term memory; 4.5 Sequential storage in visuospatial short-term memory; 4.6 Separating the threads; 4.7 Conclusions; 5 Imagery and visuospatial working memory; 5.1 Visuospatial coding and verbal memory; 5.2 Modelling the visuospatial sketchpad

5.3 Visual imagery 5.4 Conclusions; 6; Recency, retrieval and the constant ratio rule; 6.1 Recency in free recall; 6.2 The constant ratio rule; 6.3 Theories of the recency effect; 6.4 The evolutionary function of recency; 7; Fractionating the central executive; 7.1 The central executive as rag-bag; 7.2 Executive processes and the frontal lobes; 7.3 Working memory and executive processes; 7.4 Focusing the limited capacity; 7.5 Task switching and the central executive; 7.6 Division of attention as an executive skill; 7.7 Conclusions; 8; Long-term memory and the episodic buffer

8.1 Some reductionist views 8.2 Some skeletons in the working memory cupboard; 8.3 The episodic buffer; 9 Exploring the episodic buffer; 9.1 Binding in visual working memory; 9.2 Binding in memory for prose; 9.3 Some implications; 10 Individual differences and working memory span; 10.1 The psychometric tradition; 10.2 The concept of intelligence; 10.3 Individual differences in working memory; 10.4 What does working memory span measure?; 11 What limits working memory span?; 11.1 The speed hypothesis; 11.2 The resource pool hypothesis; 11.3 The inhibition hypothesis

11.4 Components of working memory 11.5 Fractionating the central executive; 11.6 Working memory and education; 11.7 Conclusion; 12; Neuroimaging working memory; 12.1 Positron emission tomography (PET); 12.2 Functional magnetic resonance imagery (f MRI); 12.3 Electroencephalography (EEG); 12.4 Other techniques; 12.5 The naming of parts; 12.6 What have we learned from imaging working memory?; 12.7 Imaging the central executive; 12.8 Meta-analysis of executive processing; 12.9 Imaging retrieval processes; 12.10 Some conclusions; 13; Working memory and social behaviour

13.1 What controls behaviour?

Notes:

Sequel to: Working memory / Alan Baddeley. 1986.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Baddeley, Alan D., 1934- Working memory.

ISBN:

9786611160135

9780191004964

0191004960

9780191545986

0191545988

9781281160133

128116013X

9780198528005

0198528000

OCLC:

922906937