In:Imagery and Spatial Cognition: Methods, models and cognitive assessment
Edited by Tomaso Vecchi and Gabriella Bottini
[Advances in Consciousness Research 66] 2006
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 22 August 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.66.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.66.toc
Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction
SECTION 1: Methodology of imagery and visuo-spatial functions
Early methods for assessing imagery and nonverbal abilities
The assessment of imagery and visuo-spatial working memory functions in children and adults
Do we only remember where we left our things when we expect to need them again: Expectancy manipulations and object-location memory
Variations on the image scanning paradigm: What do they contribute to our knowledge of mental imagery?
The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in spatial cognition
SECTION 2: Models and components of imagery and visuo-spatial processes
Neural bases and cognitive mechanisms of Human Spatial Memory
Working memory, imagery and visuo-spatial mechanisms
The episodic buffer: Implications and connections with visuo-spatial research
Visuo-spatial components of numerical representation
Motor components and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes
SECTION 3: Aging and visuo-spatial abilities
Aging and Visuo-spatial working memory
Imagery and aging
Object-location memory in ageing and dementia
Visuospatial and constructional impairments in mental deterioration
Using visual imagery as a mnemonic for verbal associative learning: Developmental and individual differences
SECTION 4: Neuropsychological aspects of space representation
Spatial navigation: Cognitive and neuropsychological aspects
Visuomotor control of spatially directed action
Visual peripersonal space
Visual perceptual processing in unilateral spatial neglect: The case of visual illusions
The impairment of the body image in the unilateral neglect syndrome
Simulating object-centred neglect with head-centred coding of space based on non-linear gaze-dependent units
Omission vs. shift of details in spatial representations
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