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This full-color textbook presents a thorough, accessible and appealing overview of the field of Memory, written by some of the world's leading researchers with students in mind.
Alan Baddeley
Having graduated in Psychology from University College London, Alan Baddeley spent the following year at Princeton, the first of five such stays in the US.
He returned to a post at the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit (APU) in Cambridge, completing a Ph.D. concerned with the design of postal codes. He continued to combine applied research, for example on deep-sea diving with theoretical issues such as the distinction between long- and short-term memory.
After moving to the University of Sussex, he and Graham Hitch proposed a multicomponent model of working memory. He also began working with amnesic patients, continuing both these lines of research when he moved, first to a chair at the University of Stirling, then returning to the APU in Cambridge. After 20 years as its Director, he moved first to the University of Bristol, then to his current position in York where he has resumed his collaboration with Graham Hitch.
He was awarded a CBE for his contributions to the study of memory, is a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the British Academy and of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck graduated from University College London. He then moved immediately to Birkbeck University of London as a lecturer, where he completed his Ph.D. on the von Restorff and "release" memory effects. His research for several years focused on various topics within memory research (e.g. levels of processing; distinctiveness).
However, for many years his research has focused mainly on anxiety and cognition (including memory). Most of this research has involved healthy populations but some has dealt with cognitive biases (including memory ones) in anxious patients. This research has been carried out at Birkbeck University of London and at Royal Holloway University of London, where he has been Professor of Psychology since 1987 (Head of Department, 1987–2005).
However, it was started during his time as Visiting Professor at the University of South Florida. He has published 40 books in psychology (many relating to human memory), including two research monographs on anxiety and cognition. He has been in "Who’s Who" since 1989.
Michael C. Anderson
Michael C. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Psychology faculty at the University of Oregon, where he was director of the Memory Control Laboratory through 2007.
Anderson is now Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His research investigates the roles of inhibitory processes as a cause of forgetting in long-term memory.
Anderson's recent work has focused on executive control as a model of motivated forgetting, and has established the existence of cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms by which we can wilfully forget past experiences. This work begins to specify the mechanisms by which people adapt the functioning of their memories in the aftermath of traumatic experience.