Awards

• Winner of 2009 British Psychological Society Book Award.

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Author:   Alan Baddeley (Department of Psychology, University of York, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   45
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9780198528005

ISBN 10:   0198528000
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   15 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction and overview 2: Why do we need a phonological loop? 3: The phonological loop: challenges and growing points 4: Visuospatial short-term memory 5: Imagery and the visuospatial sketchpad 6: Recency retrieval and the constant ratio rule 7: Fractionating the central executive 8: Long-term memory and the episodic buffer 9: Exploring the episodic buffer 10: Individual differences in working memory 11: What limits working memory span 12: Neuroimaging working memory 13: Working memory and social behaviour 14: Working memory and emotion I: fear and craving 15: Working memory and emotion II: depression and the well-springs of action 16: Working memory and consciousness 17: Multilevel control of action 18: Working memory in context: life, the universe and everything

Reviews

Certainly researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason enough to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas. The accessible and amiable writing style will ensure that student readers will not be intimiated. In short, this is a book that deserves a wide readership. -- PsycCRITIQUES<br>

<br> Certainly researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason enough to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas. The accessible and amiable writing style will ensure that student readers will not be intimiated. In short, this is a book that deserves a wide readership. -- PsycCRITIQUES<br>

Researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas...In short, this is a book that deserves wide readership. --PsycCritiques

Researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas...In short, this is a book that deserves wide readership. --PsycCritiques Certainly researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason enough to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas. The accessible and amiable writing style will ensure that student readers will not be intimiated. In short, this is a book that deserves a wide readership. -- PsycCRITIQUES Certainly researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason enough to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas. The accessible and amiable writing style will ensure that student readers will not be intimiated. In short, this is a book that deserves a wide readership. -- PsycCRITIQUES Certainly researchers who are looking for up-to-date research summaries will find the book rewarding. Those working in other fields, such as anxiety and depression, will find sufficient reason enough to pay attention to the role of working memory in these areas. The accessible and amiable writingstyle will ensure that student readers will not be intimiated. In short, this is a book that deserves a wide readership. -- PsycCRITIQUES

Author Information

Alan Baddeley succeeded Donald Broadbent as Director of the APU in Cambridge. Some 20 years later he moved to Bristol University. He is now at University of York where he has re-established his old collaboration with Graham Hitch. His interests are in human memory in general and working memory more specifically, and in combining basic and applied research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the European Academy and is a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, the Aristotle Prize for contributions to European Psychology, and was awarded the CBE for contributions to the study of memory.

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