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.
This updated edition includes chapters that reflect the state-of-the-art of research in this area.
Gordon Bower was born in 1932 in Scio, Ohio, a small town struggling to survive the Great Depression. After playing varsity baseball in college, he had two career choices: professional baseball or graduate school in psychology.
Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a ... In P. E. Morris & M. Gruneberg (Eds.), Theoretical Aspects of Memory (pp. 50–78). ... Gibson, E. J., & Walk, R. D. (1956).
In Learning & Memory, leading researcher Howard Eichenbaum provides a new-fashioned synthesis of the contemporary learning and memory fields.
Learning and Memory provides an integration of theoretical perspectives, presented clearly, concisely, and with an approachable writing style, ensuring a coherent and comprehensive learning experience for the reader.
From making conversation to walking and driving, learning and memory are crucial aspects of our survival.
In this landmark volume from 1976, Robert Crowder presents an organized review of the concepts that guide the study of learning and memory.
This volume will serve as a valuable reference for all neurobiologists and biomedical scientists as well as for cognitive and computational neuroscientists wishing to explore the remarkable phenomena of learning and memory.
Concise Learning and Memory represents the best 30 chapters from Learning and Memory: A comprehensive reference (Academic Press March 2008), the most comprehensive source of information about learning and memory ever assembled, selected by ...
"This expanded second edition continues to provide thorough coverage of both landmark research and the latest studies on the processes of learning and remembering, comprehensively covering the principles of classical...