Brain and Memory - Modulation and Mediation of Neuroplasticity (Hardcover)

We are approaching the end of the first century of attempts to discover how the brain enables us to acquire, retain, and use information based on experience. The past several decades especially have witnessed an ever accelerating pace of research. This increase is due in large part to the development of new techniques for the analysis of brain and behavior. But, to a greater extent, these advances have been fueled by some seminal findings and the accumulation of knowledge based on systematic inquiry in many laboratories around the world. This important volume, authored by internationally renowned leaders in the field, is a progress report on this burgeoning work. What processes underlie the formation of new memories? What determines their strength? Where are the changes underlying memory located? In judging recent progress, this book looks at what we have learned about each of these questions. Furthermore, the contributors look at how these questions are rephrased and refined by new findings, hypotheses, and theories. Topics include: emotion and memory, aging and memory, plasticity of the cerebral cortex, and synaptic connectivity and memory. This book will be welcomed by neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and cognitive scientists.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1997
First published:	February 1995
Authors:	James L. McGaugh • Norman M Weinberger • Gary Lynch (all at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory)
Dimensions:	241 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-508294-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Cognitive theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Psychological methodology > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
LSN:	0-19-508294-X
Barcode:	9780195082944

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