Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior

by Mark Gluck, Eduardo Mercado, Catherine Myers

Overview

With real-world examples, fascinating applications, and clear explanations, this breakthrough text helps uninitiated students understand the basic ideas and human impact of groundbreaking learning and memory research. Its unique organization into three sections—Behavioral Processes, Brain Substrates, and Clinical Perspectives—allows students to make connections across chapters while giving instructors the flexibility to assign the material that matches the course.

The new edition again offers the book’s signature inclusion of human and non-human studies and full-color design and images. You’ll find even more meaningful real-life examples; new coverage of learning and memory research and brain-imaging; an expanded discussion of the role of genetics in producing individual differences; new material on the role of sleep in memory, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781319107383
Publisher:	Worth Publishers
Publication date:	09/30/2019
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	684
Product dimensions:	7.97(w) x 9.58(h) x 1.04(d)

About the Author

Mark A. Gluck is a Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University–Newark, co-director of the Memory Disorders Project at Rutgers–Newark, and publisher of the project’s public health newsletter, Memory Loss and the Brain. His research focuses on the neural bases of learning and memory, and the consequences of memory loss due to aging, trauma, and disease. He is co-author of Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (MIT Press, 2001). In 1996, he was awarded an NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Bill Clinton. That same year, he received the American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguish Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

Eduardo Mercado is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. His research focuses on how different brain systems interact to develop representations of experienced events, and how these representations change over time. Dr. Mercado currently uses techniques from experimental psychology, computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, and behavioral neuroscience to explore questions about auditory learning and memory in rodents, cetaceans, and humans.

Catherine E. Myers is a Research Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University–Newark, co-director of the Memory Disorders Project at Rutgers–Newark, and Editor-in-Chief of the project’s public health newsletter, Memory Loss and the Brain. Her research includes both computational neuroscience and experimental psychology, and focuses on human memory, specifically on memory impairments following damage to the hippocampus and associated brain structures. She is co-author of Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (MIT Press, 2001) and author of Delay Learning in Artificial Neural Networks (Chapman and Hall, 1992).

Table of Contents

Preface

Introductory Module

CHAPTER 1 Fundamental Themes in the Psychology of Learning and Memory

CHAPTER 2 The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory

Learning Module

CHAPTER 3 Habituation, Sensitization, and Familiarization:

Learning About Repeated Events

CHAPTER 4 Classical Conditioning:

Learning to Predict Significant Events

CHAPTER 5 Operant Conditioning:

Learning the Outcome of Behaviors

CHAPTER 6 Generalization, Discrimination Learning, and Concept Formation

Memory Module

CHAPTER 7 Episodic and Semantic Memory:

Memory for Events and for Facts

CHAPTER 8 Skill Memory:

Learning by Doing

CHAPTER 9 Working Memory and Cognitive Control

Integrative Topics Module

CHAPTER 10 Emotional Influences on Learning and Memory

CHAPTER 11 Social Learning and Memory:

Observing, Interacting, and Reenacting

CHAPTER 12 Development and Aging:

Learning and Memory Across the Lifespan

Glossary G-1

References R-1

Name Index NI-1

Subject Index SI-1

What People are Saying About This

Finally, someone writes a chapter on memory that isn’t boring!  Finally, someone writes a chapter on a cognitive topic that does not confuse or hide the importance of memory behind a plethora of boring human studies! Hurray and bravo! (Lorna Joachim, University of New Mexico)

Editorial Reviews

The authors do an excellent job presenting the emerging trends. The real-life examples will be helpful for students. I would certainly refer to many of these in my lectures.
John Byrnes, Ph.D., Tufts University of Medicine, UMASS Boston

The greatest strength of this text is the constant use of relatable real world examples. Many other texts talk mainly about rats and do not relate topics to everyday life. Another strength is the blending of basic learning with brain substrates and clinical applications. Few texts do this.
Professor Todd Allen, University of Northern Colorado

Finally, someone writes a chapter on memory that isn’t boring! Finally, someone writes a chapter on a cognitive topic that does not confuse or hide the importance of memory behind a plethora of boring human studies! Hurray and bravo!
Lorna Joachim, University of New Mexico

Students Say
I really understood each topic. I like how the author discusses the concept with detailed descriptions about real life events. It helps me understand how this research related to the world around us and how it affects our everyday lives.
Kimberly Skotarczak, SUNY Buffalo

The discussions were very interesting because they were told in ways that were easily relatable. This book did not have the boring, dry material that you find in most textbooks.
Jessie Newman, University of Northern Colorado

I really thought the text was exciting and interesting, the use of pop culture brought the science to a new level, and the information became more interesting because we could see how it could be applied.
Kimberly Seeherman, Princeton University

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