| Revue: | Ludus vitalis |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000405025 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Autores: | Carruthers, Peter1 |
| Instituciones: | 1University of Maryland, Department of Philosophy, College Park, Maryland. Estados Unidos de América |
| Año: | 2013 |
| Volumen: | 21 |
| Número: | 40 |
| Paginación: | 99-124 |
| País: | México |
| Idioma: | Español |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Analítico |
| Resumen en inglés | Working memory (WM) is fundamental to man y aspects of human life, including learning, speech and text comprehension, prospection and future planning, and explicit “system 2" forms of reasoning, as well as overlapping heavily with fluid general intelligence. WM has been intensively studi ed for many decades, and there is a growing consensus about its nature, its components, and its signature limits. Remark - ably, given its central importance in human life, t here has been very little comparative investigation of WM abilities across species. Conse quently, much remains unknown about the evolution of this important human capacit y. Some questions can be tentatively answered from the existing comparative literature. Even studies that were not intended to do so can nonetheless shed light on the WM capac ities of nonhuman animals. However, many questions remain |
| Disciplinas: | Filosofía |
| Palabras clave: | Gnoseología, Filosofía de la mente, Trabajo, Atención, Estados mentales, Animales, Memoria episódica |
| Texte intégral: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
