Imagery and Spatial Cognition

Methods, models and cognitive assessment

Editors

Tomaso Vecchi

| Università di Pavia

Gabriella Bottini

| Università di Pavia

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The relationships between perception and imagery, imagery and spatial processes, memory and action: these are the main themes of this text. The interest in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience on imagery and spatial cognition has remarkably increased in the last decades. Different areas of research contribute to the clarification of the multiple cognitive processes subserving spatial perception and exploration, and to the definition of the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning these cognitive functions. The aim of this book is to provide the reader (post-graduate students as well as experts) with a complete overview of this field of research. It illustrates how brain, behaviour and cognition interact in normal and pathological subjects in perceiving, representing and exploring space.(Series B)

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 66] 2006. xiv, 436 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.66

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix–xii
Introduction	xiii–xiv
SECTION 1: Methodology of imagery and visuo-spatial functions
Early methods for assessing imagery and nonverbal abilities John T.E. Richardson	3–14
The assessment of imagery and visuo-spatial working memory functions in children and adults Irene C. Mammarella, Francesca Pazzaglia and Cesare Cornoldi	15–38
Do we only remember where we left our things when we expect to need them again: Expectancy manipulations and object-location memory Albert Postma and Roy P.C. Kessels	39–48
Variations on the image scanning paradigm: What do they contribute to our knowledge of mental imagery? Michel Denis and Grégoire Borst	49–68
The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in spatial cognition Massimiliano Oliveri, Giacomo Koch, Sara Terriero and Carlo Caltagirone	69–82
SECTION 2: Models and components of imagery and visuo-spatial processes
Neural bases and cognitive mechanisms of Human Spatial Memory Panagiota Panagiotaki, S. Lambrey and Alain Berthoz	85–100
Working memory, imagery and visuo-spatial mechanisms Zaira Cattaneo, Maria Chiara Fastame, Tomaso Vecchi and Cesare Cornoldi	101–137
The episodic buffer: Implications and connections with visuo-spatial research David G. Pearson	139–153
Visuo-spatial components of numerical representation Maria-Dolores de Hevia, Giuseppe Vallar and Luisa Girelli	155–171
Motor components and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes Robert H. Logie and Tomaso Vecchi	173–184
SECTION 3: Aging and visuo-spatial abilities
Aging and Visuo-spatial working memory Elena Cavallini and Tomaso Vecchi	187–201
Imagery and aging Paola Palladino and Rossana De Beni	203–219
Object-location memory in ageing and dementia Roy P.C. Kessels and Albert Postma	221–237
Visuospatial and constructional impairments in mental deterioration Dario Grossi, Massimiliano Conson and Luigi Trojano	239–257
Using visual imagery as a mnemonic for verbal associative learning: Developmental and individual differences Christopher Hertzog and John Dunlosky	259–280
SECTION 4: Neuropsychological aspects of space representation
Spatial navigation: Cognitive and neuropsychological aspects Cecilia Guariglia and Luigi Pizzamiglio	283–295
Visuomotor control of spatially directed action A. David Milner and Monika Harvey	297–322
Visual peripersonal space Andrea Serino, Alessandro Farnè and Elisabetta Làdavas	323–335
Visual perceptual processing in unilateral spatial neglect: The case of visual illusions Giuseppe Vallar and Roberta Daini	337–362
The impairment of the body image in the unilateral neglect syndrome Gabriella Bottini, Martina Gandola, Lorenzo Pia and Anna Berti	363–379
Simulating object-centred neglect with head-centred coding of space based on non-linear gaze-dependent units Massimo Silvetti, Fabrizio Doricchi and Eliano Pessa	381–394
Omission vs. shift of details in spatial representations Alessio Toraldo and Gabriella Bottini	395–415
Name Index	417–431
Subject Index	433–435

“Prepared for post-gradute students as well as experts this provides a complete overview, illustrating how brain, behavior and cognition interact in normal and pathological subjects in perceiving, representing and exploring space.”

In SciTech News, December 2006

“The chapters in this volume cover a very broad range of topics under the heading of imagery and spatial cognition, a range that may be broader than the typical researcher in spatial cognition is usually be concerned with. [...] The truly ambitious would try to read the entire book to appreciate how many different pieces there are to the jigsaw puzzle that is spatial cognition.”

Michael Palij, in PsycCRITIQUES, volume 52, release 33, article 51

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Stamenov, Maxim I.

2007. In Handbook of Pragmatics, ► pp. 1 ff.

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2012. In 2012 8th International Conference on Natural Computation, ► pp. 588 ff.

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Subjects

Consciousness Research

Consciousness research

Psychology

Neuropsychology

Cognitive psychology

BIC Subject: JMT – States of consciousness

BISAC Subject: PSY020000 – PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2006040573 | Marc record