visuospatial

Examples of visuospatial in the following topics:

• Short-Term and Working Memory

  • According to Baddeley, working memory has a phonological loop to preserve verbal data, a visuospatial scratchpad to control visual data, and a central executive to disperse attention between them.
  • Visual and spatial information is handled in the visuospatial sketchpad.
  • The phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad are semi-independent systems; because of this, you can increase the amount you can remember by engaging both systems at once.
  • For instance, you might be better able to remember an entire phone number if you visualize part of it (using the visuospatial sketchpad) and then say the rest of it out loud (using the phonological loop).
  • The central executive connects the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad and coordinates their activities.

• Cerebral Hemispheres and Lobes of the Brain

  • Other areas of the occipital lobe are specialized for different visual tasks, such as visuospatial processing, color discrimination, and motion perception.
  • Several portions of the parietal lobe are important to language and visuospatial processing; the left parietal lobe is involved in symbolic functions in language and mathematics, while the right parietal lobe is specialized to process images and interpretation of maps (i.e., spatial relationships).