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31. Silence and Memory

    A Special Issue of Memory

    Edited by Monisha Pasupathi, Kate C. McLean

    Series: Special Issues of Memory

    This issue of Memory focuses on silence and its implications for memory, and also for the implications of silences that extend beyond memory, to the functioning of individuals, groups, and societies. Silence can represent things taken for granted, and also things unsayable. The memory implications...

    Published March 9th 2010 by Psychology Press
32. Principles of Memory

    By Aimée M. Surprenant, Ian Neath

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    In over 100 years of scientific research on human memory, and nearly 50 years after the so-called cognitive revolution, we have nothing that really constitutes a widely accepted and frequently cited law of memory, and perhaps only one generally accepted principle. The purpose of this monograph is...

    Published June 2nd 2009 by Psychology Press
33. Episodic Memory and Healthy Ageing

    A Special Issue of Memory

    Edited by Chris Moulin, Moshe Naveh-Benjamin, Celine Souchay

    Series: Special Issues of Memory

    A characteristic feature of the aging process is a decline in episodic memory, that form of memory related to a particular time and place in an individual’s personal history. This volume gathers together articles by leaders in the field exploring aging and episodic memory in healthy adults. These...

    Published March 23rd 2009 by Psychology Press
34. Binding

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by James R. Brockmole, Steven L. Franconeri

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    Visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed features such as color, shape, and orientation. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the...

    Published February 26th 2009 by Psychology Press
35. Memory

    By Alan Baddeley, Michael W. Eysenck, Michael C. Anderson

    People seem to be intrigued by memory, and by its sometimes spectacular failure in (for example) people with amnesia. However, students of memory sometimes fail to retain this fascination. The reason is clear: in order to study memory we must carry out carefully-designed experiments, which can seem...

    Published February 4th 2009 by Psychology Press
36. Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan

    By Elizabeth A. Kensinger

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response. Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones, and over the past couple of decades there...

    Published December 14th 2008 by Psychology Press
37. From Individual to Collective Memory: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

    A Special Issue of Memory

    Edited by Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton

    Series: Special Issues of Memory

    This special issue of Memory is devoted to discussions and investigations of social memory phenomena. Very often our memories of the past are of events we shared with others and very often we share in remembering with others -- when parents and children reminisce about significant family events,...

    Published December 1st 2008 by Psychology Press
38. Flashbulb Memories

    New Issues and New Perspectives

    Edited by Olivier Luminet, Antonietta Curci

    We all have memories of highly emotional personal and public events that may have happened some years ago but which are felt as strongly as if they happened yesterday. We remember where they happened, the people who were with us, and seemingly irrelevant details such as the weather, particular...

    Published November 18th 2008 by Psychology Press
39. The Visual World in Memory

    Edited by James R. Brockmole

    Series: Current Issues in Memory

    The book examines how well we remember what we see. Research in human memory for visual material varies tremendously across the time scales, stimuli, and scenarios of interest. Because of these distinct pursuits, research in the field of 'visual memory' is in practice rather compartmentalized and...

    Published October 7th 2008 by Psychology Press
40. The Development of Memory in Infancy and Childhood

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Mary Courage, Nelson Cowan

    Series: Studies in Developmental Psychology

    Human memory is not only the repository of our past but the essence of who we are. As such, it is of enduring fascination. We marvel at its resilience in some situations and its fragility in others. The origin of this extraordinary cognitive capacity in infancy and childhood is the focus of...

    Published September 8th 2008 by Psychology Press