Attention and Memory: An Integrated Framework

Ideal for students and researchers in cognitive psychology

For decades, the fundamental processes underlying memory and attention have been understood within an "information processing" framework in which information passes from one processing stage to another, leading eventually to a response. More recently, however, the attempt to build a general theoretical framework for information processing has been largely supplanted in favor of two more recent approaches: parallel/connectionist models and direct investigations of brain function.

Here, cognitive psychologist Nelson Cowan presents an important, analytical update of the traditional information-processing approach by modifying it to incorporate the last few decades of research on memory, attention, and brain functioning. Throughout, the author cogently considers and ultimately refutes recent challenges to the fundamental assumption of the existence of special short-term memory and selective attention faculties.

• Oxford University Press Brain Science Collection( Prod-4678)

• Author/Editor: Cowan, Nelson
• ISBN/ISSN: 9780195067606
• Specialty: Psychology
• Language:English
• Edition: 1st
• Pages: 344
• Illustrations: 28
• Year: 1997