Memory

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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.

• 1. What is memory?
  • Why do we need memory?
  • One memory or many?
  • Theories, maps, and models
  • How many kinds of memory?
  • Sensory memory
  • Short-term and working memory
  • Long-term memory
  • Everyday memory
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 2. Short-term memory
  • Short-term and working memory: What's the difference?
  • Memory span
  • Two kinds of memory?
  • Models of verbal short-term memory
  • Competing theories of verbal short-term memory
  • Visuo-spatial short-term memory
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 3. Working memory
  • The multicomponent model
  • Imagery and the visuo-spatial sketchpad
  • The central executive
  • The episodic buffer
  • Individual differences in working memory
  • Theories of working memory
  • The neuroscience of working memory
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 4. Learning
  • Rate of learning
  • Distributed practice
  • Expanding retrieval
  • The importance of testing
  • The importance of feedback
  • Motivation to learn
  • Repetition and learning
  • Implicit learning
  • Learning and consciousness
  • Explaining implicit memory
  • Learning and the brain
  • Implicit learning in the brain
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 5. Episodic memory: Organizing and remembering
  • Meaning and memory
  • Learning and predictability
  • Levels of processing
  • The limits of levels
  • Transfer-appropriate processing
  • Why is deeper coding better?
  • Organization and learning
  • Memory and the brain
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 6. Semantic memory and stored knowledge
  • Semantic memory vs. episodic memory
  • Storing simple concepts
  • Organization of semantic memory in the brain
  • Learning new concepts
  • Schemas
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 7. Autobiographical memory
  • Why do we need autobiographical memory?
  • Methods of study
  • A theory of autobiographical memory
  • Psychogenic amnesia
  • Organically based deficits in autobiographical memory
  • Autobiographical memory and the brain
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 8. Retrieval
  • "On the tip of the tongue"
  • The retrieval process: general principles
  • Factors determining retrieval success
  • Context cues
  • Retrieval tasks
  • The importance of incidental context in episodic memory retrieval
  • Recognition memory
  • Source monitoring
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 9. Incidental forgetting
  • A remarkable memory
  • The fundamental fact of forgetting
  • On the nature of forgetting
  • Factors that discourage forgetting
  • Factors that encourage incidental forgetting
  • A functional view of incidental forgetting
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 10. Motivated forgetting
  • Life is good, or memory makes it so
  • Terminology in research on motivated forgetting
  • Factors that predict motivated forgetting
  • Factors that predict memory recovery
  • Recovered memories of trauma: instances of motivated forgetting?
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 11. Amnesia
  • Studying amnesia
  • Terminology
  • Anterograde amnesia
  • Theories of amnesia
  • Retrograde amnesia
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 12. Memory in childhood
  • Memory in infants
  • Developmental changes in memory during childhood
  • Autobiographical memory and infantile amnesia
  • Children as witnesses
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 13. Memory and aging
  • Working memory and aging
  • Aging and long-term memory
  • Theories of aging
  • The aging brain
  • Alzheimer disease
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 14. Eyewitness testimony
  • Major factors influencing eyewitness accuracy
  • Remembering faces
  • Police procedures with eyewitnesses
  • From laboratory to courtroom
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 15. Prospective memory
  • Assessing prospective memory
  • Why do plane crashes occur?
  • Types of prospective memory
  • Aging and prospective memory
  • Theoretical perspectives
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• 16. Improving your memory
  • Techniques to improve memory
  • Preparing for examinations
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• Glossary
• References
• Author index
• Subject index

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