Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference / Edition 2

by John H. Byrne (Editor)

Overview

Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, Second Edition, Four Volume Set is the authoritative resource for scientists and students interested in all facets of learning and memory. This updated edition includes chapters that reflect the state-of-the-art of research in this area. Coverage of sleep and memory has been significantly expanded, while neuromodulators in memory processing, neurogenesis and epigenetics are also covered in greater detail. New chapters have been included to reflect the massive increase in research into working memory and the educational relevance of memory research. No other reference work covers so wide a territory and in so much depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128051597
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/23/2017
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	2402
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

The June and Virgil Waggoner Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Dr. Byrne is an internationally acclaimed Neuroscientist. He received his PhD under the direction of Noble Prize winner, Eric Kandel. Dr. Byrne is a prolific author and Editor-in-Chief of Learning and Memory (CSHP).

Table of Contents

Volume One: Learning Theory and Behavior
Types of memory
Retrieval from memory
Perceptual learning
Extinction
Cognitive dimension of operant learning
Concept and category learning in animals
Learning and representation
Attention and memory in mammals and primates
Transmission of acquired information in nonhuman primates
Adaptive Specializations and Generality of the Laws of Classical and Instrumental Conditioning

Volume Two: Cognitive Psychology of Memory
Encoding and Retrieval
Episodic and semantic memory
Context and memory
Implicit vs explicit memory
Working memory (n ± 2)
Working memory and intelligence
The adaptive character of memory
Attention and Memory
Spatial Memory
Signal detection theories of recognition memory

Volume Three: Memory Systems
Introduction and Overview
Multiple Memory Systems in the Brain:  Cooperation and Competition
Anatomy of the hippocampus and the Declarative memory system
Declarative Memory System:  Amnesia
Neural substrates of remembering- Electroencephalographic Studies
Structural basis of Episodic memory
Structural basis of Semantic memory
Schemas
Neurobiology of Recognition and Memory
Contribution of functional imaging to understanding human memory processes

Volume Four: Mechanisms of Memory
Overview and Organization
Molecular Studies of Learning and Memory in Aplysia and the Hippocampus
Molecular Mechanisms of learning in C. elegans
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of memory in molluscs
Cellular and molecular mechanism of Associative Learning - Bee
Multiple memory phases
Neural circuits of fear memory
Cellular and molecular mediation of reward
Reward mechanisms and drug addiction
Molecular and cellular aspects of memory dysfunction in aging

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From the Publisher

Presents an extensive, integrated summary of research in the psychology and neurobiology of learning and memory

Editorial Reviews

"…this rich and rewarding reference work will serve as a superb framework for the decades ahead, a reference that will provide both the student and the working scientist with the intellectual background necessary to understand and function effectively in the study of learning and memory."—From the Foreword by Eric R. Kandel, M.D.

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