TitleWorking memory and human cognition [electronic resource] / John T.E. Richardson ... [et al.]
Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195100990.001.0001
Descript 1 online resource (x, 163 p.) : ill

SUMMARY

This title compares and contrasts different conceptions of working memory. This is one of the most important notions to have informed cognitive psychology over the last 20 years or so, and yet it has been used in a wide variety of ways. This is partly because contemporary usage of the phrase ẁorking memory' encapsulates various themes that have appeared at different points in the history of research into human memory and cognition. This book presents three dominant views of working memory


SUBJECT

  1. Memory
  2. Memory -- Age factors
  3. Cognition -- Age factors