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 | pp. ix–xii

Introduction | pp. xiii–xiv

SECTION 1: Methodology of imagery and visuo-spatial functions

Early methods for assessing imagery and nonverbal abilities

John T.E. Richardson | pp. 3–14

The assessment of imagery and visuo-spatial working memory functions in children and adults

Irene C. Mammarella, Francesca Pazzaglia and Cesare Cornoldi | pp. 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 | pp. 39–48

Variations on the image scanning paradigm: What do they contribute to our knowledge of mental imagery?

Michel Denis and Grégoire Borst | pp. 49–68

The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in spatial cognition

Massimiliano Oliveri, Giacomo Koch, Sara Terriero and Carlo Caltagirone | pp. 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 | pp. 85–100

Working memory, imagery and visuo-spatial mechanisms

Zaira Cattaneo, Maria Chiara Fastame, Tomaso Vecchi and Cesare Cornoldi | pp. 101–137

The episodic buffer: Implications and connections with visuo-spatial research

David G. Pearson | pp. 139–153

Visuo-spatial components of numerical representation

Maria-Dolores de Hevia, Giuseppe Vallar and Luisa Girelli | pp. 155–171

Motor components and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes

Robert H. Logie and Tomaso Vecchi | pp. 173–184

SECTION 3: Aging and visuo-spatial abilities

Aging and Visuo-spatial working memory

Elena Cavallini and Tomaso Vecchi | pp. 187–201

Imagery and aging

Paola Palladino and Rossana De Beni | pp. 203–219

Object-location memory in ageing and dementia

Roy P.C. Kessels and Albert Postma | pp. 221–237

Visuospatial and constructional impairments in mental deterioration

Dario Grossi, Massimiliano Conson and Luigi Trojano | pp. 239–257

Using visual imagery as a mnemonic for verbal associative learning: Developmental and individual differences

Christopher Hertzog and John Dunlosky | pp. 259–280

SECTION 4: Neuropsychological aspects of space representation

Spatial navigation: Cognitive and neuropsychological aspects

Cecilia Guariglia and Luigi Pizzamiglio | pp. 283–295

Visuomotor control of spatially directed action

A. David Milner and Monika Harvey | pp. 297–322

Visual peripersonal space

Andrea Serino, Alessandro Farnè and Elisabetta Làdavas | pp. 323–335

Visual perceptual processing in unilateral spatial neglect: The case of visual illusions

Giuseppe Vallar and Roberta Daini | pp. 337–362

The impairment of the body image in the unilateral neglect syndrome

Gabriella Bottini, Martina Gandola, Lorenzo Pia and Anna Berti | pp. 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 | pp. 381–394

Omission vs. shift of details in spatial representations

Alessio Toraldo and Gabriella Bottini | pp. 395–415

Name Index | pp. 417–431

Subject Index | pp. 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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