Description
Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory: Attention and Performance XXV provides an update on research surrounding the memory processes that are crucial for many facets of cognitive processing and experience, with new coverage of emerging areas of study, including a new understanding of working memory for features of stimuli devoid of verbal, phonological, or long-term memory content, such as memory for simple visual features (e.g., texture or color), simple auditory features (e.g., pitch), or simple tactile features (e.g., vibration frequency), now called sensory memory to distinguish from verbal memory.This contemporary focus on sensory memory is just beginning, and this collection of original contributions provides a foundational reference for the study mechanisms of sensory memory. Students, scholars, and researchers studying memory mechanisms and processes in cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology will find this book of great value to their work.- Introduces the study of sensory mechanisms of working memory as distinct from verbal memory- Covers visual memory, auditory memory, and tactile memory- Includes translational content as the breakdown of working memory is often associated with a disease, disorder, or trauma to the brain
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Sensational Memorability: Working Memory for Things We See, Hear, Feel, or Somehow SenseChapter 3. The Brain Mechanisms of Working Memory: An Evolving StoryChapter 4. The Contribution of Human Superior Intraparietal Sulcus to Visual Short-Term Memory and PerceptionChapter 5. Neural Bases of the Short-term Retention of Visual InformationChapter 6. What are the Roles of Sensory and Parietal Activity in Visual Short-Term Memory?Chapter 7. Hemispheric Organization of Visual Memory: Analyzing Visual Working Memory With Brain MeasuresChapter 8. Visual Working Memory and Attentional Object SelectionChapter 9. Individual Differences in Visual Working Memory Capacity: Contributions of Attentional Control to StorageChapter 10. Working Memory and Aging: A ReviewChapter 11. Defining a Role for Lateral Prefrontal Cortex in Memory-Guided Decisions About Visual MotionChapter 12. Working Memory Representations of Visual Motion along the Primate Dorsal Visual PathwayChapter 13. Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Working Memory: Cortical Specialization and PlasticityChapter 14. Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Auditory Short-Term and Recognition MemoryChapter 15. Brain Activity Related to the Retention of Tones in Auditory Short-Term MemoryChapter 16. The Interplay Between Auditory Attention and Working MemoryChapter 17. Neuroimaging of the Mind's Ear Using Representational Similarity AnalysisChapter 18. Remembering Touch: Using Interference Tasks to Study Tactile and Haptic MemoryChapter 19. Human Cortical Representation of Tactile Short-Term Memory for Stimulation Patterns on the Hand: Evidence From MagnetoencephalographyChapter 20. The Role of Spatial Attention in Tactile Short-Term Memory
