Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1 Working Memory and the Autistic Mind R. Hansen L. Deling E. Olufs R. Pytlik F. R. Ferraro 1
Chapter 2 Measurement of Working Memory Karlee D. Fellner John R. Reddon 33
Chapter 3 Effects of Visuo-Spatial Working Memory on Wayfinding Ability Laura Piccardi Raffaella Nori 81
Chapter 4 Working Memory and Prefrontal Cortex and Their Relation with the Brain Reward System and Drug Addiction Ester Miyuki Nakamura-Palacios 109
Chapter 5 Working Memory in the Service of Verbal Episodic Encoding: A Cognitive Neuropsychological Perspective Matthew J. Wright Peter Bachman Ellen Woo 141
Chapter 6 Working Memory in Preterm and Full-Term Infants Jing Sun Nicholas Buys 175
Chapter 7 The Assessment and Training of Working Memory for Prevention and Early Intervention in Case of Reading, Writing and Arithmetical Difficulties in Children Antonella D'Amico 201
Chapter 8 Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension and Production Matthew J. Traxler David Caplan Debra L. Long Gloria S. Waters 225
Chapter 9 Working Memory Components and Virtual Reorientation: A Dual-Task Study Alessandro O. Caffò Luciana Picucci Manuela N. Di Masi Andrea Bosco 249
Chapter 10 Using fMRI to Examine the Brain - Bases of Working Memory Michael A. Motes Ehsan Shokri Kojori Neena K. Rao Ilana J. Bennett Bart Rypma 267
Chapter 11 Aging and Short-Term Memory for Face Identity of Emotional Faces Sandra J. E. Langeslag Jan W. van Strien 287
Chapter 12 Varying Background Colours Reveals that Enhanced Short-Term Memory for Angry Faces Is a Valence and Not an Arousal Effect Sandra J. E. Langeslag Margaret C. Jackson Jan W. van Strien David E. J. Linden 301
Chapter 13 Working Memory Deficits in Schizophrenia: Neurobiological Correlates and Treatment Haiyun Xu Hong-Ju Yang Gregory M. Rose 313
Chapter 14 Tobacco, Nicotine and Cotinine: For Memory, Neurological, and Psychiatric Disorders V. Echeverria P. Rajeev R. Zeitlin 349
Chapter 15 Working Memory and Functional Outcome in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder Yasuhiro Kaneda 373
Chapter 16 Control of Working memory Contents During Task-Switching James A. Grange 381
Chapter 17 Development of Neural Mechanisms of Working Memory V. Vuontela S. Carlson
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