Imagery and Spatial Cognition

Name: Imagery and Spatial Cognition | Methods, models and cognitive assessment
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Methods, models and cognitive assessment

Tomaso Vecchi Gabriella Bottini(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 22. August 2006

XIV, 436 Seiten

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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
Introduction
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
Introduction
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
Conclusions
Notes
References
Do we only remember where we left our things when we expect to need them again?
Introduction
Verbal interference effects
Verbal mechanisms in remembering objects and object-position links
Remembering locations when focusing on time
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Note
References
Variations on the image scanning paradigm
Introduction
Wider implications of the findings of image scanning experiments
Two contrasting scanning processes
Scanning along straight or complex paths
Conclusion
References
The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in spatial cognition
Introduction
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
Conclusions
References
Models and components of imagery and visuo-spatial processes
Neural bases and cognitive mechanisms of Human Spatial Memory
Introduction
Part A
Part B
Instead of epilogue
References
Working memory, imagery and visuo-spatial mechanisms
Introduction
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
Conclusions
References
The episodic buffer
Introduction
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
Conclusions
References
Visuo-spatial components of numerical representation
Introduction
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
Note
References
Motor components and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes
Introduction
The effect of metric distance on visuo-spatial span
Movement and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Aging and visuo-spatial abilities
Aging and Visuo-spatial working memory
Introduction
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
Conclusion
References
Imagery and aging
Introduction
Aging and imagery processes
Type of images and aging
Imagery and memory in aging
Conclusion
References
Object-location memory in ageing and dementia
Introduction
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
Conclusion
References
Visuospatial and constructional impairments in mental deterioration
Introduction
Visuospatial and visuoconstructional disorders
Constructional disturbances in dementia
Mechanisms of constructional disturbances in dementia
References
Using visual imagery as a mnemonic for verbal associative learning
Introduction
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
Conclusions
References
Neuropsychological aspects of space representation
Spatial navigation
Introduction
Spatial navigation: Cognitive and neuropsychological aspects
Concluding remarks
References
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
Conclusions
References
Visual peripersonal space
Introduction
References
Visual perceptual processing in unilateral spatial neglect
Introduction
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
Conclusions
References
The impairment of the body image in the unilateral neglect syndrome
Introduction
The body representation: Theoretical issues
Disorders of the body representation
Concluding remarks
References
Simulating object-centred neglect with head-centred coding of space based on non-linear gaze-dependent units
Introduction
Neural-computational simulation of object-centred neglect with a basis function (BF) network
Simulations by Real-Position (RP) network
Conclusions
References
Omission vs. shift of details in spatial representations
Introduction
``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?
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Name index
Subject index
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