Working Memory Behavioral and Neural Correlates

by Osaka, Naoyuki; Logie, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780198570394
• ISBN10: 0198570392
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Working memory has been one of the most intensively studied systems in cognitive psychology. It is only relatively recently however that researchers have been able to study the neural processes might underlye working memory, leading to a proliferation of research in this domain.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory brings together world class researchers from around the world to summarize our current knowledge of this field, and directions for future research. An historical opening chapter by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch sets the context for the subsequent chapters. The scope of the book is exceptionally broad, providing a showcase for leading edge research on all contemporary concepts of working memory, using techniques from experimental psychology, from single cell recording, from neuropsychology, from cognitive neuroimaging and from computational modelling.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory will be an important reference text for all those seeking an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of this field.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Working memory capacity, control, components, and theory: an editorial overview	p. xiii
Working memory: past, present...and future?	p. 1
What do working memory span tasks like reading span really measure?	p. 21
What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us?	p. 43
The time-based resource-sharing model of working memory	p. 59
The ins and outs of working memory: dynamic processes associated with focus switching and search	p. 81
Neural bases of focusing attention in working memory: an fMRI study based on individual differences	p. 99
Separating processing from storage in working memory operation span	p. 119
The interpretation of temporal isolation effects	p. 137
Working memory and short-term memory storage: what does backward recall tell us?	p. 153
Accounting for age-related differences in working memory using the feature model	p. 165
Implications from cognitive neuropsychology for models of short-term and working memory	p. 181
Top-down modulation in visual working memory	p. 197
The general-purpose working memory system and functions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	p. 213
Visuospatial rehearsal processes in working memory	p. 231
Towards a multicomponent view of executive control: the case of response selection	p. 247
Relational processing is fundamental to the central executive and is limited to four variables	p. 261
A neural efficiency hypothesis of age-related changes in human working memory performance	p. 281
Intersecting the divide between working memory and episodic memory: evidence from sustained and transient brain activity patterns	p. 305
'Activated long-term memory'? The bases of representation in working memory	p. 333
Activation, binding, and selective access - an embedded three-component framework for working memory	p. 351
A hierarchical biased-competition model of domain-dependent working memory maintenance and executive control	p. 369
Index	p. 385
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