1st Edition
Aging, Representation, and Thought Gestalt and Feature-Intensive Processing
By Matthew Sharps
Copyright 2003
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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The brain contains many distinct functional and anatomical regions. Despite these differences, brain tissues are sufficiently uniform in the fact that they can engage in various types of processing. How can functionally different kinds of processes, such as verbal memory and reasoning, visual and auditory memory, and mental imagery, all be supported by the relatively uniform electrochemical... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Paradox of Human Intelligence; 2: Minds through Time I: What Aging and Spatial Cognition Reveal about the Nature of Representation; 3: Minds through Time II: What Aging and Nonspatial Cognition Reveal about the Nature of Representation; 4: The Processing of Auditory Imagery; 5: Gestalt and Feature-Intensive Processing: Toward a Unified Model of Human Information Processing; 6: Bad Decisions, G/FI Processing, and Contextual Reasoning; Epilogue
Biography
Matthew Sharps
