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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory - An Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory - An Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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This clear and accessible textbook introduces the brain's
remarkable capacity for memory. The text was developed for
undergraduate and beginning graduate students, but it will also be
of use to cognitive scientists, biologists, and psychologists who
seek an introduction to biological investigations of memory. Like
the first edition, this fully-updated second edition begins with a
history of memory research, starting with a 'Golden Era' at the
turn of the 20th century, and progressing to our current
understanding of the neurobiology of memory. Subsequent sections of
the book discuss the cellular basis of memory, amnesia in humans
and animals, the physiology of memory, declarative, procedural, and
emotional memory systems, memory consolidation, and the control of
memory by the prefrontal cortex. The book is organized into four
sections, which highlight the major themes of the text. The first
theme is connection, which considers how memory is fundamentally
based on alterations in the connectivity of neurons. This section
of the book covers the most well studied models of cellular
mechanisms of neural plasticity that may underlie memory. The
second theme is cognition, which involves fundamental issues in the
psychological structure of memory. This section of the book
considers the competition among views on the nature of cognitive
processes that underlie memory, and tells how the controversy was
eventually resolved. The third theme is compartmentalization, which
is akin to the classic problem of memory localization. However,
unlike localization, the notion of "compartments" is intended to
avoid the notion that particular memories are pigeon-holed into
specific loci, and instead emphasize that different forms of memory
are accomplished by distinct modules or brain systems. This section
of the book surveys the evidence for multiple memory systems, and
outlines how they are mediated by different brain structures and
systems. The fourth and final theme is consolidation, the process
by which memories are transformed from a labile trace into a
permanent store. This text encapsulates the major concepts in the
field of memory research, and makes this area accessible to
students who pursue a variety of related disciplines.
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