Neuropsychological Impairments of Short-Term Memory

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List of contributors
Acknowledgements
General introduction
Part I. The Functional Architecture of Auditory-Verbal (Phonological) Short-Term Memory and its Neural Correlates:
1. The impairment of auditory-verbal short-term storage Tim Shallice and Giuseppe Vallar
2. The development of the concept of working memory: implications and contributions of neuropsychology Alan D. Baddeley
3. Multiple phonological representations and verbal short-term memory Frances J. Friedrich
4. Electrophysiological measures of short-term memory Arnold Starr, Geoffrey Barrett, Hillel Pratt, Henry J. Michalewski and Julie V. Patterson
Part II. Phonological Short-Term Memory and Other Levels of Information Processing: Studies in Brain-Damaged Patients with Defective Phonological Memory:
5. Auditory and lexical information sources in immediate recall: evidence from a patient with deficit to the phonological short-term store Rita Sloan Berndt and Charlotte C. Mitchum
6. Neuropsychological evidence for lexical involvement in short-term memory Eleanor M. Saffran and Nadine Martin
7. Auditory-verbal span of apprehension: a phenomenon in search of a function? Rosaleen A. McCarthy and Elizabeth K. Warrington
8. Short-term retention without short-term memory Brian Butterworth, Tim Shallice and Frances L. Watson
Part III. Short-Term Memory Studies in Different Populations (Children, Elderly, Amnesics) and of Different Short-Term Memory Systems:
9. Developmental fractionation of working memory Graham J. Hitch
10. Adult age differences in working memory Fergus I. M. Craik, Robin G. Morris and Mary L. Gick
11. Lipreading, neuropsychology and immediate memory Ruth Campbell
12. Memory without rehearsal David Howard and Sue Franklin
13. The extended present: evidence from time estimation by amnesics and normals Marcel Kinsbourne and Robert E. Hicks
Part IV. Phonological Short-Term Memory and Sentence Comprehension:
14. Short-term memory and language comprehension: a critical review of the neuropsychological literature David Caplan and Gloria S. Waters
15. Neuropsychological evidence on the role of short-term memory in sentence processing Randi C. Martin
16. Short-term memory impairment and sentence processing: a case study Eleanor M. Saffran and Nadine Martin
17. Phonological processing and sentence comprehension: a neuropsychological case study Giuseppe Vallar, Anna Basso and Gabriela Bottini
18. Working memory and comprehension of spoken sentences: investigation of children with reading disorder Stephen Crain, Donald Shankweiler, Paul Macaruso and Eva Bar-Shalom
Name index
Subject index.

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