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The Evolution of Memory Systems - Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations (Paperback)
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The Evolution of Memory Systems - Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Psychology Series
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Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical
observations and animal experiments. This doctrine holds that the
medial temporal lobe subserves one memory system for explicit or
declarative memories, while the basal ganglia subserves a separate
memory system for implicit or procedural memories, including
habits. Cortical areas outside the medial temporal lobe are said to
function in perception, motor control, attention, or other aspects
of executive function, but not in memory. 'The Evolution of Memory
Systems' advances dramatically different ideas on all counts. It
proposes that several memory systems arose during evolution and
that they did so for the same general reason: to transcend problems
and exploit opportunities encountered by specific ancestors at
particular times and places in the distant past. Instead of
classifying cortical areas in terms of mutually exclusive
perception, executive, or memory functions, the authors show that
all cortical areas contribute to memory and that they do so in
their own ways-using specialized neural representations. The book
also presents a proposal on the evolution of explicit memory.
According to this idea, explicit (declarative) memory depends on
interactions between a phylogenetically ancient navigation system
and a representational system that evolved in humans to represent
one's self and others. As a result, people embed representations of
themselves into the events they experience and the facts they
learn, which leads to the perception of participating in events and
knowing facts. 'The Evolution of Memory Systems' is an important
new work for students and researchers in neuroscience, psychology,
and biology.
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