| Description |
vi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology |
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MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction: Perceiving and Remembering Brief Visual Stimuli / Veronika Coltheart -- Ch. 2. Understanding Sentences and Scenes: The Role of Conceptual Short-Term Memory / Mary C. Potter -- Ch. 3. Understanding and Remembering Briefly Glimpsed Pictures: Implications for Visual Scanning and Memory / Helene Intraub -- Ch. 4. Inattentional Amnesia / Jeremy M. Wolfe -- Ch. 5. The Attentional Blink: A Front-End Mechanism for Fleeting Memories / Kimron L. Shapiro and Steven J. Luck -- Ch. 6. Repetition Blindness for Pictures: Evidence for the Rapid Computation of Abstract Visual Descriptions / Nancy Kanwisher, Carol Yin and Ewa Wojciulik -- Ch. 7. Role and Nature of Object Representations in Perceiving and Acting / Daphne Bavelier -- Ch. 8. Phonological Codes in Reading Comprehension, Short-Term Memory, and Memory for Rapid Visual Sequences / Veronika Coltheart |
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Ch. 9. Meaning but Not Words: Neuropsychological Evidence for Very Short-Term Conceptual Memory / Eleanor M. Saffran and Nadine Martin -- Ch. 10. Fleeting Memories: A Summary and Conclusion / Veronika Coltheart |
| Summary |
The investigation of what people understand and remember from rapidly presented sequences of visual stimuli began in the late 1960s. In this book prominent researchers approach the topic from psychological, neuropsychological, and electrophysiological perspectives. In short, the book is about our remarkably developed abilities to understand and remember the contents of very briefly presented material |
| Analysis |
Cognition |
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Short-term memory |
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Visual perception |
| Notes |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cognition.
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Short-term memory.
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Visual perception.
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Visual Perception.
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Memory, Short-Term.
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Mental Processes.
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| Author |
Coltheart, Veronika.
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| LC no. |
98036547 |
| ISBN |
0262032619 |
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