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Working memory, thought, and action / Alan Baddeley.

By: Baddeley, Alan D, 1934-.
Contributor(s): Baddeley, Alan D, 1934-. Working memory.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford psychology series: no. 45.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xviii, 412 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198528012 (pbk.) :; 0198528019 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Short-term memory | Memory, Short-Term -- physiology | Consciousness -- physiology | Emotions | Social Behavior | Volition -- physiologyDDC classification: 153.13 BAD
Contents:
Introduction and overview -- Why do we need a phonological loop? -- The phonological loop: challenges and growing points -- Visuospatial short-term memory -- Imagery and visuospatial working memory -- Recency, retrieval and the constant ratio rule -- Fractionating the central executive -- Long-term memory and the episodic buffer -- Exploring the episodic buffer -- Individual differences and working memory span -- What limits working memory span? -- Neuroimaging working memory -- Working memory and social behaviour -- Working memory and emotion I: fear and craving -- Working memory and emotion II: depression and the wellsprings of action -- Consciousness -- The multilevel control of action -- Working memory in context: life, the universe and everything.
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 Grahame 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.
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'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.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Sequel to: Working memory / Alan Baddeley. 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-404) and index.

Introduction and overview -- Why do we need a phonological loop? -- The phonological loop: challenges and growing points -- Visuospatial short-term memory -- Imagery and visuospatial working memory -- Recency, retrieval and the constant ratio rule -- Fractionating the central executive -- Long-term memory and the episodic buffer -- Exploring the episodic buffer -- Individual differences and working memory span -- What limits working memory span? -- Neuroimaging working memory -- Working memory and social behaviour -- Working memory and emotion I: fear and craving -- Working memory and emotion II: depression and the wellsprings of action -- Consciousness -- The multilevel control of action -- Working memory in context: life, the universe and everything.

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 Grahame 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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. xi)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xvii)
  • 1 Introduction and overview (p. 1)
  • 1.1 Some history (p. 2)
  • 1.2 Multicomponent working memory (p. 5)
  • 1.3 The multicomponent model (p. 7)
  • 1.4 Conclusions (p. 13)
  • 2 Why do we need a phonological loop? (p. 15)
  • 2.1 The evolutionary relevance of the loop (p. 15)
  • 2.2 Language acquisition (p. 16)
  • 2.3 Sublexical short-term memory (p. 21)
  • 2.4 The problem of serial order (p. 25)
  • 2.5 Chaining models (p. 26)
  • 2.6 Contextual models (p. 27)
  • 3 The phonological loop: challenges and growing points (p. 35)
  • 3.1 Nairne's critique (p. 35)
  • 3.2 The word length effect (p. 38)
  • 3.3 Disrupting the phonological loop (p. 49)
  • 3.4 The irrelevant speech effect (p. 51)
  • 3.5 The phonological loop: an overview (p. 60)
  • 3.6 Conclusion (p. 62)
  • 4 Visuospatial short-term memory (p. 63)
  • 4.1 The case for a separating visuospatial and verbal working memory (p. 63)
  • 4.2 Fractionating visuospatial working memory (p. 64)
  • 4.3 Memory for spatial location (p. 65)
  • 4.4 Object-based short-term memory (p. 67)
  • 4.5 Sequential storage in visuospatial short-term memory (p. 73)
  • 4.6 Separating the threads (p. 77)
  • 4.7 Conclusions (p. 83)
  • 5 Imagery and visuospatial working memory (p. 85)
  • 5.1 Visuospatial coding and verbal memory (p. 86)
  • 5.2 Modelling the visuospatial sketchpad (p. 91)
  • 5.3 Visual imagery (p. 94)
  • 5.4 Conclusions (p. 100)
  • 6 Recency, retrieval and the constant ratio rule (p. 103)
  • 6.1 Recency in free recall (p. 103)
  • 6.2 The constant ratio rule (p. 105)
  • 6.3 Theories of the recency effect (p. 108)
  • 6.4 The evolutionary function of recency (p. 114)
  • 7 Fractionating the central executive (p. 117)
  • 7.1 The central executive as rag-bag (p. 118)
  • 7.2 Executive processes and the frontal lobes (p. 119)
  • 7.3 Working memory and executive processes (p. 122)
  • 7.4 Focusing the limited capacity (p. 124)
  • 7.5 Task switching and the central executive (p. 129)
  • 7.6 Division of attention as an executive skill (p. 133)
  • 7.7 Conclusions (p. 138)
  • 8 Long-term memory and the episodic buffer (p. 139)
  • 8.1 Some reductionist views (p. 139)
  • 8.2 Some skeletons in the working memory cupboard (p. 141)
  • 8.3 The episodic buffer (p. 148)
  • 9 Exploring the episodic buffer (p. 157)
  • 9.1 Binding in visual working memory (p. 157)
  • 9.2 Binding in memory for prose (p. 160)
  • 9.3 Some implications (p. 169)
  • 10 Individual differences and working memory span (p. 175)
  • 10.1 The psychometric tradition (p. 175)
  • 10.2 The concept of intelligence (p. 176)
  • 10.3 Individual differences in working memory (p. 181)
  • 10.4 What does working memory span measure? (p. 184)
  • 11 What limits working memory span? (p. 189)
  • 11.1 The speed hypothesis (p. 189)
  • 11.2 The resource pool hypothesis (p. 190)
  • 11.3 The inhibition hypothesis (p. 192)
  • 11.4 Components of working memory (p. 198)
  • 11.5 Fractionating the central executive (p. 203)
  • 11.6 Working memory and education (p. 205)
  • 11.7 Conclusion (p. 209)
  • 12 Neuroimaging working memory (p. 211)
  • 12.1 Positron emission tomography (PET) (p. 211)
  • 12.2 Functional magnetic resonance imagery (fMRI) (p. 213)
  • 12.3 Electroencephalography (EEG) (p. 213)
  • 12.4 Other techniques (p. 214)
  • 12.5 The naming of parts (p. 216)
  • 12.6 What have we learned from imaging working memory? (p. 217)
  • 12.7 Imaging the central executive (p. 224)
  • 12.8 Meta-analysis of executive processing (p. 228)
  • 12.9 Imaging retrieval processes (p. 230)
  • 12.10 Some conclusions (p. 231)
  • 13 Working memory and social behaviour (p. 235)
  • 13.1 What controls behaviour? (p. 235)
  • 13.2 Habits, schemata and deterministic control (p. 236)
  • 13.3 The sense of agency (p. 242)
  • 13.4 Working memory and self-control (p. 246)
  • 13.5 Conclusions (p. 255)
  • 14 Working memory and emotion 1: fear and craving (p. 257)
  • 14.1 Cognition in extreme emotion (p. 258)
  • 14.2 Clinical studies of anxiety and cognition (p. 265)
  • 14.3 Modelling the impact of anxiety and cognition (p. 269)
  • 14.4 Addiction and craving (p. 272)
  • 14.5 Conclusion (p. 275)
  • 15 Working memory and emotion II: depression and the wellsprings of action (p. 277)
  • 15.1 Comparing the effects of anxiety and depression (p. 277)
  • 15.2 Psychological theories of depression (p. 284)
  • 15.3 The wellsprings of action (p. 286)
  • 15.4 Working memory and depression (p. 289)
  • 15.5 Emotion and the multicomponent model (p. 293)
  • 15.6 Emotion: a broader view (p. 295)
  • 15.7 Conclusions (p. 300)
  • 16 Consciousness (p. 301)
  • 16.1 A pragmatic approach to consciousness (p. 301)
  • 16.2 Core consciousness (p. 302)
  • 16.3 Consciousness under anaesthesia (p. 304)
  • 16.4 Conscious control and the global workspace hypothesis (p. 306)
  • 16.5 A neural basis for cognitive workspace (p. 309)
  • 16.6 Consciousness and working memory (p. 314)
  • 17 The multilevel control of action (p. 317)
  • 17.1 Implicit control of action (p. 317)
  • 17.2 A model of motor control (p. 323)
  • 17.3 Implications of motor control for working memory (p. 332)
  • 17.4 Conclusions (p. 334)
  • 18 Working memory in context: life, the universe and everything (p. 335)
  • 18.1 An evolutionary perspective (p. 336)
  • 18.2 Some philosophical implications (p. 339)
  • 18.3 Epilogue (p. 348)
  • References (p. 351)
  • Index (p. 405)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Alan Baddeley succeeded Donald Broadbent as Director of the APU in Cambridge. Some 20 years later he moved to Bristol University. He is now at University of York where he has re-established his old collaboration with Graham Hitch. His interests are in human memory in general and working memory more specifically, and in combining basic and applied research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the European Academy and is a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, the Aristotle Prize for contributions to European Psychology, and was awarded the CBE for contributions to the study of memory.
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