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Remembering - An Activity of Mind and Brain (Hardcover)
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Remembering - An Activity of Mind and Brain (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Psychology Series, 34
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Memory is typically thought of as a set of neural representations -
'memory traces' - that must be found and reactivated in order to be
experienced. It is often suggested that 'memory traces' are
represented by a hierarchically organized system of analyzers,
modified, sharpened and differentiated by encounters with
successive events. Remembering: An activity of mind and brain is
the magnum opus of one of the leading figures in the psychology of
memory. It sets out Fergus Craik's current view of human memory as
a dynamic activity of mind and brain. The author argues that
remembering should be understood as a system of active cognitive
processes, similar to (perhaps identical to) the processes
underlying attending, perceiving and thinking. Thus, encoding
processes are essentially viewed as the mental activities involved
in perceiving and understanding, and retrieval is described as the
partial reactivation of these same processes. This account proposes
that episodic and semantic memory should be thought of as levels in
a continuum of specificity rather than as separate systems of
memory. In addition, the book presents Craik's views on working
memory and on age-related memory impairments. In the latter case
the losses are attributed largely to a difficulty with the
self-initiation of appropriate encoding and retrieval operations
compensated, when needed, by support from the external environment.
The development of these ideas is discussed throughout the book and
illustrated substantially by experiments from the author's lab, but
also by empirical and theoretical contributions from other
researchers. A broad account of current ideas and findings in
contemporary memory research, but viewed from the author's personal
theoretical standpoint, Remembering: An activity of mind and brain
will be essential for researchers, graduate and postdoctoral
students working in the field of human memory.
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