How is memory storage accomplished? This book touches on these questions and many more, showing how the recent convergence of psychology and biology has resulted in an exciting new synthesis of knowledge about learning and remembering.
Memory: Human memory and amnesia. Volume 4
In the course of their professional lives many people need to understand facts about human memory. For example, a client who is suddenly "remembering" being sexually abused as a child...
Acclaimed hard-SF author Linda Nagata introduces a new world, where the sky is bisected by an arch of light, and the mysterious "silver" rises from the ground each night to completely transform the landscape--and erase from existence ...
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The link between conditioning and conscious recollection remains unspecified, although the term memory has been applied to both (Hirst & LeDoux, 1986). In this volume, Thompson (Chapter 2), McGaugh (Chapter 3), and RoveeCollier (Chapter ...
A fascinating and illuminating debate on the cognitive architecture of long term memory. Is memory best regarded as comprising multiple independent systems, as a processing framework, tapped via different levels...
If teachers understand how memory works, there is more chance of helping students do well through effective curriculum and lesson planning. This book is an introduction to memory written specifically with language teachers in mind.
Everyone fascinated by the scope and power of the human brain will find this book unforgettable.
In the realm of mental phenomena, experiment and measurement have hitherto been chiefly limited in application to sense perception and to the time relations of mental processes. By means of...
I will begin by highlighting, in section 5.2, a phenomenon that gives us a further reason for believing in the existence of the sense of mineness in episodic memory. This is the condition of “disowned memory ...
... ed. and intro. by Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn, London: Jonathan Cape. Bergson, Henri (1991) Matter and Memory, trans. N. M. Paul and W. S. Palmer, New York: Zone Books. Bromwich, David (1998) Disowned by Memory ...
Substantive changes in each chapter and 156 new references bring this new edition completely up to date and offer students an array of high-interest examples for augmenting their own memory abilities and appreciation of memory science.
Mnemonic devices are also central to Jack Goody's ' Memory and Oral Tradition ' , a rich analysis of recall in literate oral ... In a sense , forgetting also forms the subject of Barbara Wilson's - contribution , ' When Memory Fails ' .
Memory and history are always in tension, as people selectively choose memories to make histories that "prove" the legitimacy of their claims to power, prestige, and prerogative. If many African...
This volume shows how the concept of memory has been used and appropriated in different historical circumstances and how it has changed throughout the history of philosophy.
The exciting conclusion to K. J. Parker's Scavenger trilogy.
Therefore the first part of this book provides both clinicians and neuroscientists with a broad view of the neuropsychology of memory, and the psychobiological processes it involves, including recent advances from imaging technology and ...
Interactive Versus Bizarre Imagery Although not considered a formal mnemonic as the above three are, ... Noninteracting, Nonbizarre Noninteracting, Bizarre Interacting, Nonbizarre Interacting, Bizarre Piano Cigar Piano Cigar Piano Cigar ...
So Taylor searched the web, combing photos, searching for the three mountain peaks. Finally he came to a web site for Lake Sarawak, New Hampshire. It was about a twohour drive from Boston. He clicked to a photograph of the mountain ...