Foundations of Human Memory provides an introduction to the
scientific study of human memory with an emphasis on both the major
theories of memory and the laboratory studies that have been used
to test those theories and inspire their further development.
Written with the undergraduate student in mind, the text assumes no
specific background in the subject, but a general familiarity with
scientific method and quantitative approaches to the treatment of
data. Foundations of human memory is organized around the major
empirical paradigms used to study memory in the laboratory and the
theories used to explain data obtained using those paradigms. The
text begins with a focus on memory for individual items, building
up to memory for associations between items, and finally to memory
for entire sequences of items and the problem of memory search.
Several major theories of memory are considered in detail,
including strength theory, summed-similarity theory, neural network
based theories, retrieved-context theory, and theories based on the
division of memory into separate short-term and long-term storage
systems. The text emphasizes basic research over applied problems,
but brings in real-world examples and neuroscientific evidence as
appropriate.
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