Imagery and Spatial Cognition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Methodology of imagery and visuo-spatial functions -- Early methods for assessing imagery and nonverbal abilities -- Introduction -- Imagery questionnaires -- Performance tests of intelligence -- Tests of spatial ability -- Conclusions -- References -- The assessment of imagery and visuo-spatial working memory functions in children and adults -- Introduction -- Instruments and materials used to assess imagery and visuospatial memory -- The Visuospatial Working Memory Test Battery (BEMViS) -- Studies carried out with the use of the BEMViS battery -- Application of the battery to the analysis of single cases with visuospatial deficits -- Tests for a more in depth assessment -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Do we only remember where we left our things when we expect to need them again? -- Introduction -- Verbal interference effects -- Verbal mechanisms in remembering objects and object-position links -- Remembering locations when focusing on time -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Variations on the image scanning paradigm -- Introduction -- Wider implications of the findings of image scanning experiments -- Two contrasting scanning processes -- Scanning along straight or complex paths -- Conclusion -- References -- The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in spatial cognition -- Introduction -- TMS studies of spatial extinction -- Suppression of extinction with TMS in patients with unilateral brain damage -- TMS studies of visual spatial neglect -- Suppression of visual neglect with TMS in patients with unilateral brain damage -- Conclusions -- References -- Models and components of imagery and visuo-spatial processes.

Neural bases and cognitive mechanisms of Human Spatial Memory -- Introduction -- Part A -- Part B -- Instead of epilogue -- References -- Working memory, imagery and visuo-spatial mechanisms -- Introduction -- Models of Working Memory (WM) -- The Working Memory Model proposed by Cornoldi and Vecchi -- VSWM, imagery and perception -- A brief history of imagery -- The study of mental imagery and its relationship withVSWM -- Perception and VSWM -- Alternative approaches to (Visuo-Spatial) Working Memory -- VSWM and consciousness -- Conclusions -- References -- The episodic buffer -- Introduction -- Serial recall in visual short-term memory -- Imagery strategies in serial recall tasks -- Is the episodic buffer a mental imagery system? -- Current directions in episodic buffer research -- Conclusions -- References -- Visuo-spatial components of numerical representation -- Introduction -- Numbers and imagery: Insight from introspective reports -- The mental number line hypothesis -- Numerical influence in visuo-spatial tasks -- Numerical magnitude and space: Evidence from anatomical and neuropsychological data -- Critical aspects on the spatial-numerical association: Order vs. magnitude -- Note -- References -- Motor components and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes -- Introduction -- The effect of metric distance on visuo-spatial span -- Movement and complexity effects in visuo-spatial processes -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Aging and visuo-spatial abilities -- Aging and Visuo-spatial working memory -- Introduction -- An interpretation of age differences in VSWM: Active processes -- Can complexity explain the age differences between passive storage and active manipulation? -- The influence of expertise on VSWM aging research -- Conclusion -- References -- Imagery and aging -- Introduction -- Aging and imagery processes.

Type of images and aging -- Imagery and memory in aging -- Conclusion -- References -- Object-location memory in ageing and dementia -- Introduction -- Assessment of object-location memory in older participants -- Object-location memory in ageing: binding problem or context deficit? -- Implicit and explicit memory for object locations in healthy older adults -- Object-location memory in dementia -- Neural processes related to (pathological) aging and spatial memory -- Conclusion -- References -- Visuospatial and constructional impairments in mental deterioration -- Introduction -- Visuospatial and visuoconstructional disorders -- Constructional disturbances in dementia -- Mechanisms of constructional disturbances in dementia -- References -- Using visual imagery as a mnemonic for verbal associative learning -- Introduction -- Individual differences in imagery use -- Predictive validity of self-reported imagery -- Available data on self-reported imagery use during PA learning -- Measurement of imagery mediator production -- Age and gender differences in IDQ scales -- Correlations of imagery questionnaires with PA mediator production -- Prediction of PA imagery production -- Conclusions -- References -- Neuropsychological aspects of space representation -- Spatial navigation -- Introduction -- Spatial navigation: Cognitive and neuropsychological aspects -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Visuomotor control of spatially directed action -- Introduction: Two functions served by vision -- Reaching to a single target -- On-line adjustments during reaching -- Delayed reaching -- Reaching between obstacles -- Conclusions -- References -- Visual peripersonal space -- Introduction -- References -- Visual perceptual processing in unilateral spatial neglect -- Introduction -- Sensory and perceptual processing in unilateral spatial neglect.

Processing of illusions in patients with spatial neglect -- Illusions in neglect -- Illusions of horizontal extent as models of neglect: Illusions of neglect -- The anatomical basis of visual illusions -- Conclusions -- References -- The impairment of the body image in the unilateral neglect syndrome -- Introduction -- The body representation: Theoretical issues -- Disorders of the body representation -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Simulating object-centred neglect with head-centred coding of space based on non-linear gaze-dependent units -- Introduction -- Neural-computational simulation of object-centred neglect with a basis function (BF) network -- Simulations by Real-Position (RP) network -- Conclusions -- References -- Omission vs. shift of details in spatial representations -- Introduction -- ``Detection'' vs. ``Localization'' in common sense and in the classical literature -- ``Shifts'' vs. ``omissions'' in (perceptual) spatial tasks -- ``Shifts'' vs. ``omissions'' in the auditory modality -- ``Shifts'' vs. ``omissions'' in motor programming: Directional hypokinesia vs. directional hypometria? -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Advances in Consciousness Research.