Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Vega, Manuel de.

Description

1. 230 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "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."--Publisher description.

Series statement

1. Counterpoints

Uniform title

1. Counterpoints (Oxford University Press)

Subject

1. Mental representation
2. Space perception
3. Imagery (Psychology)
4. Visual perception
5. Visual Perception
6. Space Perception
7. Models, Psychological
8. Imagery, Psychotherapy
9. space perception
10. imagery
11. visual perception
12. Visual perception
13. Mental representation
14. Space perception
15. Raumwahrnehmung
16. Räumliches Sehen
17. Visuelle Wahrnehmung
18. Wissensrepräsentation
19. Aufsatzsammlung
20. Cognitieve processen
21. Mentale representatie
22. Cognitie
23. Psicologia cognitiva
24. Psychologie cognitive
25. Représentation mentale
26. Perception spatiale
27. Imagerie (psychologie)

Genre/Form

1. Electronic books.

Contents

1. Visuospatial cognition : an historical and theoretical introduction / Manuel de Vega and Marc Marschark -- Integrating the components of imagery / Margaret Jean Intons-Peterson -- Images, models, and propositional representations / Philip N. Johnson-Laird -- Imagery and the description of spatial configurations / Michel Denis -- Representations of visuospatial cognition : a discussion / Manuel de Vega [and others].

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.