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Boxes and Arrows Versus Brains

Working Memory and Human Cognition, by John T.E. Richardson, Randall W. Engle, Lynn Hasher, Robert H. Logie, Ellen R. Stoltzfus, and Rose T. Zacks. 1996. New York: Oxford University Press. 148 pp., $19.95 (PB).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2000

Christopher Randolph
Christopher Randolph
Affiliation:
Associate Professor; Director, Neuropsychology Service; Head, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, Department of Neurology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
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Abstract

I will confess to a lingering knee-jerk reaction when human cognitive processes are diagramed with boxes and arrows in a way never intended to correspond to identifiable neural pathways. In college and graduate school, such exercises seemed to me a waste of time, when I could be learning how the brain “really” works in mediating memory functions, language, and so forth.

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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , May 2000 , pp. 510
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© 2000 The International Neuropsychological Society

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