Models of Working Memory Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control Akira Miyake Priti Shah Books
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Working memory is currently a "hot" topic in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Because of their radically different scopes and emphases, however, comparing different models and theories and understanding how they relate to one another has been a difficult task. This work offers a much-needed forum for systematically comparing and contrasting existing models of working memory. It does so by asking each contributor to address the same comprehensive set of important theoretical questions on working memory. The answers to these questions elucidate the emerging general consensus on the nature of working memory among different theorists and clarify incompatible theoretical claims that must be resolved in future research. As such, this volume serves not only as a milestone that documents the state of the art in the field, but also as a theoretical guidebook that will promote new lines of research and more precise and comprehensive models of working memory.
Models of Working Memory Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control Akira Miyake Priti Shah Books
If you carefully study this prescient book, then compare it to 2007's most recent counterpart by Osaka (The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory), you will find the Editors' predictions amazingly accurate even today!That's not to say the rest of the book is dated either-- most of the models presented have been updated with molecular, signal amplitude and many other "minute" data and details, but the corpus of the theories, models and research are still current and sound. In fact, ironically, "working memory" has evolved WAY past "memory" to much more today.
IGNORE THE STARS on the review summary BTW, one negative review was mistakenly counted twice. Read the excellent summary and rebuttal to criticisms in the other positive review below.
As hinted, in the 13 years since publication of this wonderful text, working memory has become an astonishing fair haired child of Neuro encompassing cognition, attention, problem solving, intelligence, and even consciousness itself! Without memory, there is no mind, and without working memory, there is no consciousness at all, according to the most compelling research today.
Because this fine text is available "used" at great prices, I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the "next technical steps" in the study of consciousness (eg. neural computation formulas). One negative review rightfully pointed out that this volume isn't "dumbed down" for a lay readership, but in my opinion that is a benefit, not a fault. The material itself isn't really that tough (lots of diagrams and supporting studies along with the tougher computational models), and is doable if you have, say, a successful semester of undergrad level calculus (just a general intelligence guideline, not a specific requirement, autodidacts included, acknowledged and encouraged!).
BTW, the entire introduction and contents, with section and page references, are available for preview at the Colorado psych department's site, just go to the site and search the title and author at psych dot colorado dot edu. You still have to come back and buy the book, as this is just the intro and preface, but they give a great feel for the theories and topics. It will whet your appetite, because all the topical page references are given on the site, and this is a BIG book!
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Models of Working Memory Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control Akira Miyake Priti Shah Books Reviews
If you are a layperson who wants to learn more about the topic of 'human memory', this is not the book for you (as evidenced by one of the earlier reviews). However, if you are a scientist, educator or serious student who wishes to know more about the concept of working memory, this book is essential reading. The editors have done an excellent job in identifying the 8 most important issues/questions in the field and then asking the authors of the 10 most influential models to attempt to answer these questions using their model. This lets the reader see the different strengths and weaknesses of the different models (in their authors' own words) and their commonalities and differences. The editors then are kind enough to summarize the major issues on which there is consensus, what remains to be debated and useful future directions for research. There is no ultimate conclusion as there is still much work to be done.
In a nutshell, students if you want to know about working memory, this is THE book. The reason I say students is that all the top researchers in working memory already own a copy of this book.
A few clarifications to correct some of the misapprehensions in previous reviews
(1) "There are many different scientific models of how human memory works." Actually, this book concerns a small subset of these models - those based on theories of working memory that have arisen within cognitive and neurocognitive psychology in the past 3 or 4 decades. Ironically, these do not concern themselves so much with how memory works. Indeed, WM theorists emphasize that working memory it is not for memorizing , per say, and in a sense, the memory aspect of WM is somewhat peripheral to the topic. Rather WM is closely, perhaps inextricably tied to complex cognitive activities involving problem solving and reasoning, language processing, visuo-spatial thinking and decision making.
(2) The "hope" of the book's EDITORS was not to "guide the reader to the next level of enlightenment". The readers for whom this book was written are serious students of and fellow researchers within the WM field who neither expect, nor would take seriously editors suffering under the delusion that they possessed the ability to synthesize into one, a dozen of the most influential models of working memory, researched and developed by the very colleagues with whom they regularly disagree, collaborate and contend on equal footing within the pages of peer-reviewed journals.
(3) The first reason for failure according to an earlier unhappy reviewer appears to be a conclusion stemming from comments in the Chapter 12 review by Healy et al., who go on to suggest alternative methods by which comparison and evaluation of models could have been accomplished, which they then conclude would, themselves, prove ( likely more) problematic, if not impossible. Further, both they, and Miyake and Shah (the editors) in Chapter 13 systematically demonstrate common or complementary perspectives that emerge from seemingly disparate accounts and distinguish these from mutually incompatible accounts of how WM processes operate and relate to other cognitive systems.
(4) The second, more fundamental failure according the disappointed buyer is the editors `failure to provide the reader with the enlightened, moment of "aha" , leading him to conclude that just as we began with 12 different models of WM, we are in the end left with "nothing more than" 12 different models of WM (actually 10 models of WM are presented, not 12). The most astonishing thing about this assertion is that it characterizes what is arguably Miyake and Shah's greatest achievement here, as a serious failure. What we were left with was a clearer picture than had come close to being achieved to date (1999) of the state of the field - it's strengths, it's weaknesses, and important avenues for future research (e.g., marrying the strengths of the computational modeling approach with those of verbal-conceptual theory construction; beginning to incorporate the role emotion plays in WM and cognitive control, etc., )
(5) Unfortunately, if you are looking for an "aha" moment, you won't find the smoothed-out, answers-are-in explanation you seek in this book. But rest assured; An explanation eventually will be simplified and neatly dressed for public consumption. In this invaluable book, however, you'll instead find the often frustrating trappings inherent to the scientific process, in which researchers grapple with the nature of phenomena, from which our probing more often than not elicits messy answers, full of contradictions that only gradually begin to form cohesive pictures.
In short, this reviewer's comments seem to reflect unfamiliarity with how science-in-progress actually looks before it is disseminated for the public. In fact, Holmes reveals a complete lack of scientific background in general, and background in the rapidly changing field of research in working memory (WM) in particular. I suspect he skimmed, rather than read, the book.
It still holds up after all these years which is a lot in this area.
If you carefully study this prescient book, then compare it to 2007's most recent counterpart by Osaka (The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory), you will find the Editors' predictions amazingly accurate even today!
That's not to say the rest of the book is dated either-- most of the models presented have been updated with molecular, signal amplitude and many other "minute" data and details, but the corpus of the theories, models and research are still current and sound. In fact, ironically, "working memory" has evolved WAY past "memory" to much more today.
IGNORE THE STARS on the review summary BTW, one negative review was mistakenly counted twice. Read the excellent summary and rebuttal to criticisms in the other positive review below.
As hinted, in the 13 years since publication of this wonderful text, working memory has become an astonishing fair haired child of Neuro encompassing cognition, attention, problem solving, intelligence, and even consciousness itself! Without memory, there is no mind, and without working memory, there is no consciousness at all, according to the most compelling research today.
Because this fine text is available "used" at great prices, I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the "next technical steps" in the study of consciousness (eg. neural computation formulas). One negative review rightfully pointed out that this volume isn't "dumbed down" for a lay readership, but in my opinion that is a benefit, not a fault. The material itself isn't really that tough (lots of diagrams and supporting studies along with the tougher computational models), and is doable if you have, say, a successful semester of undergrad level calculus (just a general intelligence guideline, not a specific requirement, autodidacts included, acknowledged and encouraged!).
BTW, the entire introduction and contents, with section and page references, are available for preview at the Colorado psych department's site, just go to the site and search the title and author at psych dot colorado dot edu. You still have to come back and buy the book, as this is just the intro and preface, but they give a great feel for the theories and topics. It will whet your appetite, because all the topical page references are given on the site, and this is a BIG book!
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