The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory

Visual working memory allows us to temporarily maintain and manipulate visual information in order to solve a task. The study of the brain mechanisms underlying this function began more than half a century ago, with Scoville and Milner's (1957) seminal discoveries with amnesic patients. This ti...

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Main Author: Natasha Sigala (auth)
Other Authors: Zsuzsa Kaldy (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
Series:Frontiers Research Topics
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Summary:Visual working memory allows us to temporarily maintain and manipulate visual information in order to solve a task. The study of the brain mechanisms underlying this function began more than half a century ago, with Scoville and Milner's (1957) seminal discoveries with amnesic patients. This timely collection of papers brings together diverse perspectives on the cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory from multiple fields that have traditionally been fairly disjointed: human neuroimaging, electrophysiological, behavioural and animal lesion studies, investigating both the developing and the adult brain.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (182 p.)
ISBN:978-2-88945-168-5
9782889451685
Access:Open Access