This second volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores issues in psychology, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience, focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition. This text offers extended chapters from three of the most respected and recognized investigators in the field: Michel Denis, Margaret Intons-Peterson, and Philip Johnson-Laird. Denis considers the role of mental imagery in spatial cognition and
topographical orientation; images are viewed as a form of mental representation that is similar to real-world objects. Intons-Peterson examines spatial representation in short-term, or working-memory, considering
the relationship of visual-spatial processes to subjects' expectations and individual differences. Johnson-Laird approaches the issue of visual-spatial representation from a "mental models" perspective, considering the relationship of images to various cognitive events. The editors provide a historical and theoretical introduction; and a final chapter integrates the arguments of the chapters, offering ideas about new directions and new research designs.
This second volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores issues in psychology, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience, focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition. This text offers extended chapters from three of the most respected and recognized investigators in the field: Michel Denis, Margaret Intons-Peterson, and Philip Johnson-Laird. Denis considers the role of mental imagery in spatial cognition and
topographical orientation; images are viewed as a form of mental representation that is similar to real-world objects. Intons-Peterson examines spatial representation in short-term, or working-memory, considering
the relationship of visual-spatial processes to subjects' expectations and individual differences. Johnson-Laird approaches the issue of visual-spatial representation from a "mental models" perspective, considering the relationship of images to various cognitive events. The editors provide a historical and theoretical introduction; and a final chapter integrates the arguments of the chapters, offering ideas about new directions and new research designs.
Foreword
1: Manuel De Vega and Marc Marschark: Visuospatial Cognition: An
Historical and Theoretical Introduction
2: Margaret Jean Intons-Peterson: Integrating the Components of
Imagery
3: Philip N. Johnson-Laird: Images, Models, and Propositional
Representations
4: Michel Denis: Imagery and the Description of Spatial
Configurations
5: Mauel De Vega, Marc Marschark, Margaret Jean Intons-Peterson,
Philip N. Johnson-Laird, and Michel Denis: Representations of
Visuospatial Cognition: A Discussion
Index
"This work will almost certainly serve as a source of research
ideas for graduate students and faculty in cognitive
psychology."--Choice
"This work will almost certainly serve as a source of research
ideas for graduate students and faculty in cognitive
psychology."--Choice
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