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Working Memory and Human Cognition (Counterpoints)
Working Memory and Human Cognition - Counterpoints Author:Oxford University Press, John T. E. Richardson This contribution to the Counterpoints series compares and contrasts different conceptions of working memory, which is one of the most important and pervasive notions to have informed cognitive psychology over the last 20 years. Interest in working memory as an element involved in a wide range of everyday cognitive tasks and in laboratory studie... more »s is rapidly increasing. This work presents recent advances in the theory and research on working memory, and discusses the conceptual and methodological basis of three major viewpoints. An open discussion about the issues involved and the commonalities and contrasts in the use of the working memory concept make this volume a stimulating, challenging study which will be essential reading for research workers in the fields of cognition and cognitive neuropsychology.« less