Working Memory, Thought, and Action: 45 (Oxford Psychology Series) - Hardcover

Baddeley, Alan

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ISBN 10: 0198528000 ISBN 13: 9780198528005

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2007

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"Researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas...In short, this is a book that deserves wide readership."--PsycCritiques "Certainly researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason enough to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas. The accessible and amiable writing style will ensure that student readers will not be intimiated. In short, this is a book that deserves a wide readership."-- PsycCRITIQUES "Certainly researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason enough to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas. The accessible and amiable writing style will ensure that student readers will not be intimiated. In short, this is a book that deserves a wide readership."-- PsycCRITIQUES "Certainly researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason enough to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas. The accessible and amiable writing style will ensure that student readers will not be intimiated. In short, this is a book that deserves a wide readership."-- PsycCRITIQUES

Reseña del editor

'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 book updates the theory, discussing both the evidence in its favour, and alternative approaches. In addition, it discusses the implications of the model for understanding social and emotional behaviour, concluding with an attempt to place working memory in a broader biological and philosophical context. Inside are chapters on the phonological loop, the visuo-spatial sketchpad, the central executive and the episodic buffer. There are also chapters on the relevance to working memory of studies of the recency effect, of work based on individual differences, and of neuroimaging research.

The broader implications of the concept of working memory are discussed in the chapters on social psychology, anxiety, depression, consciousness and on the control of action. Finally, Baddeley discusses the relevance of a concept of working memory to the classic problems of consciousness and free will.

This new volume from one of the pioneers in memory research will doubtless emulate the success of its predecessor, and be a major publication within the psychological literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0198528000
• ISBN 13: 9780198528005
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432