Neuropsychological Impairments of Short-Term Memory - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521370884 ISBN 13: 9780521370882

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This work summarizes the current state of empirical and theoretical work on impairments of short-term memory (often caused by damage in the left cerebral hemisphere) and contains chapters from virtually every scientist in Europe and North America working on the problem. The chapters present evidence from both normal and brain-damaged patients, providing a comprehensive view of the functional characteristics of auditory-verbal short-term memory and its neurobiological correlates. Two neuropsychological issues are discussed in detail: the specific patterns of immediate memory impairment resulting from brain damage, with reference to both multi-store and the interactive-activation theoretical frameworks, and the relation between verbal STM and sentence comprehension disorders in patients with a defective immediate auditory memory, an area of major controversy in recent years.

About this title

Book Description:

This work summarizes the empirical and theoretical work on impairments of short-term memory (often caused by damage in the left cerebral hemisphere) and contains chapters from virtually every scientist in Europe and North America working on the problem.

Review:

"...an excellent reference work and belongs on the shelves of all serious investigators of human memory, cognition, and cognitive neuroscience." Choice

"...a set of outstanding researchers who contribute chapters on just about every aspect of short-term memory and its neural correlates." Nature

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521370884
• ISBN 13: 9780521370882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 540
• Editor: Vallar Giuseppe, Shallice Tim