Human Memory: A Multimodal Approach
By Unknown Author.
Description
Our memory of simple action phrases such as "comb your hair" improves by about 50 percent when we actually act out the phrase. Extensive studies on this self-performance effect, which is not explained by any of the current theories of episodic memory, led the authors of this work to develop a multi-modal approach to the understanding of memory, which not only takes account of the traditional nonverbal (visual) systems, but also includes the influence of the motor system and actions on memory. The central ideal of this model is that human information processing is to a certain exte...
ISBN(s)
0889371164, 9780889371163
