Lecture ten: working memory and imagery (cogpsy)

Question 1

Working memory and the brain

Answer 1

Working memory consists of a network of brain areas
Prefrontal and parietal areas are crucial for executive/attentional functions
In combination with information specific areas (verbal / visuospatial

Question 2

Imagery

Answer 2

The ability to recreate the sensory world in absence of visual stimuli
But does this ability really exist or play a functional role?
Stephen Kosslyn: yes
Zenon Pylyshyn: no

Question 3

epiphenomenon

Answer 3

It accompanies the real mechanism, but is not part of it.