Models of Visuospatial Cognition (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language) - Hardcover

De Vega, Manuel; Intons-Peterson, Margaret Jean; Johnson-Laird, Philip N.; Denis, Michel; Marschark, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195100840 ISBN 13: 9780195100846

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This second volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores issues in psychology, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience, focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition. This text offers extended chapters from three of the most respected and recognized investigators in the field: Michel Denis, Margaret Intons-Peterson, and Philip Johnson-Laird. Denis considers the role of mental imagery in spatial cognition and topographical orientation; images are viewed as a form of mental representation that is similar to real-world objects. Intons-Peterson examines spatial representation in short-term, or working-memory, considering the relationship of visual-spatial processes to subjects' expectations and individual differences. Johnson-Laird approaches the issue of visual-spatial representation from a "mental models" perspective, considering the relationship of images to various cognitive events. The editors provide a historical and theoretical introduction; and a final chapter integrates the arguments of the chapters, offering ideas about new directions and new research designs.

About this title

About the Author

Manuel de Vega is at Universidad de La Laguna, Canary Island. Marc Marscharck is at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Review

"This work will almost certainly serve as a source of research ideas for graduate students and faculty in cognitive psychology."--Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195100840
• ISBN 13: 9780195100846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240