Perspectives In Memory Research

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Perspectives in Memory Research integrates current knowledge about memory from both the brain and cognitive sciences. The existing literature on memory is vast, attesting to the longstanding fascination with commitment to ongoing research at all levels and from widely varying points of view. This exciting collection presents new empirical data and theories concerning the formation, the retrieval, and the integration of memory processes and, to some extent, tries to identify how studying memory processes might ...

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Overview

Perspectives in Memory Research integrates current knowledge about memory from both the brain and cognitive sciences. The existing literature on memory is vast, attesting to the longstanding fascination with commitment to ongoing research at all levels and from widely varying points of view. This exciting collection presents new empirical data and theories concerning the formation, the retrieval, and the integration of memory processes and, to some extent, tries to identify how studying memory processes might help augment learning and training procedures.The chapters on the neurobiologic approach include one on brain function at the molecular level, by IraBlack; one on structure function considerations in the study of memory in cortical networks, by GaryLynch; one on basic circuits for cortical organization, by Gordon Shepherd; and one on connectionist models of learning and memory, by Terrence Sejnowski.The psychological dimensions are probed byMarta Kutas, who reports on tracking memory capacity in the human brain; William Hirst, who discusses the improvement of memory; and Stephen Kosslyn, who considers imagery in learning.MichaelGazzaniga and William Hirst conclude with an essay on present and future memory research and its applications.Michael Gazzaniga is director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience at CornellUniversity Medical College, president of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, and an adjunct professor at the Dartmouth Medical School. A Bradford Book.

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Empirical data and theories concerning formation, retrieval, and integration of memory processes; considers how these processes might augment learning and training procedures. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780262517119
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publication date: 9/22/1988
  • Pages: 332
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
I Neurobiological Considerations in Memory Function
1 Experience and the Biochemistry of Information Storage in the Nervous System
2 Structure-Function Relationships in the Organization of Memory
3 A Basic Circuit of Cortical Organization
4 Learning and Representation in Connectionist Models
II Psychological Dimensions of Memory Functions in Humans
5 Review of Event-Related Potential Studies of Memory
6 Improving Memory
7 Imagery in Learning
III Present and Future of Memory Research and Its Applications
Index
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