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Catalyzed by the development of new neurobiological and behavioral
techniques as well as new conceptual and theoretical approaches to
the study of the relationship between brain and behavior, research
exploring brain functions enabling learning and memory has greatly
accelerated in recent years. The chapters in this book reflect
current theoretical approaches to the study of brain and memory and
provide new insights concerning the cellular bases of memory and
the differential involvement of brain systems in different forms of
memory. By presenting up-to-date summaries of research
investigating brain mechanisms underlying learning and memory,
these chapters help to place current findings in appropriate
theoretical context, and further stimulate research inquiry
attempting to understand how the brain makes memory. Divided into
three sections, coverage in this volume includes: * a discussion of
pharmacological approaches to the study of brain and memory; * a
review of experiments using a variety of techniques, including
brain lesions, brain grafting, and electrophysiological recording
to investigate the role of different brain regions in learning and
memory; and * an examination of molecular analyses of events
associated with memory formation.
This volume consists of 82 classic and important contributions to
the basic neurobiology of learning and memory. Included are
historical articles as well as articles on developmental
plasticity, hormones and memory, long-term potentiation,
electrophysiology of memory, biochemistry of memory, morphology of
memory, invertebrate models, and features of animal and human
memory. This is a companion volume to Brain Theory Reprint Volume
in which articles on mathematical models of memory are presented.
This volume consists of 82 classic and important contributions to
the basic neurobiology of learning and memory. Included are
historical articles as well as articles on developmental
plasticity, hormones and memory, long-term potentiation,
electrophysiology of memory, biochemistry of memory, morphology of
memory, invertebrate models, and features of animal and human
memory. This is a companion volume to Brain Theory Reprint Volume
in which articles on mathematical models of memory are presented.
Catalyzed by the development of new neurobiological and behavioral
techniques as well as new conceptual and theoretical approaches to
the study of the relationship between brain and behavior, research
exploring brain functions enabling learning and memory has greatly
accelerated in recent years. The chapters in this book reflect
current theoretical approaches to the study of brain and memory and
provide new insights concerning the cellular bases of memory and
the differential involvement of brain systems in different forms of
memory. By presenting up-to-date summaries of research
investigating brain mechanisms underlying learning and memory,
these chapters help to place current findings in appropriate
theoretical context, and further stimulate research inquiry
attempting to understand how the brain makes memory.
Divided into three sections, coverage in this volume includes:
* a discussion of pharmacological approaches to the study of brain
and memory;
* a review of experiments using a variety of techniques, including
brain lesions, brain grafting, and electrophysiological recording
to investigate the role of different brain regions in learning and
memory; and
* an examination of molecular analyses of events associated with
memory formation.
This edited volume summarizes recent findings of leading
researchers investigating the brain systems that underlie memory.
The book reviews recent progress in understanding forms of memory
in animals and humans and the interaction of cortical and
subcortical systems in the regulation of memory. Special emphasis
is given to the development of neural network models that attempt
to link cells to systems in the representation of memory. The book
will be an invaluable source for cognitive psychologists,
neuroscientists, and students interested in this active and
exciting area of research.
This book brings together an internationally respected group of
researchers for the purpose of examining neuroplasticity, a topic
of immense current interest in psychology, neuroscience,
neuropsychology, and clinical neurology. The chapters represent
state-of-the-art work on neuroplasticity at all levels: behavioral,
neural, and molecular. They describe recent work on memory ranging
from cellular morphological studies in invertebrates to research on
the human brain made possible by new advances in neuroimaging
technology. The book begins with an introductory chapter that
considers the psychology of memory at the global, structural level.
The remainder of the volume is divided into three related parts.
The first focuses on recent approaches, which are based in part on
new technology, that aim to measure and describe activity in
relatively large populations of neurons. The second focuses on
memory at the level of brain systems. One major theme to emerge
from work at this level is that memory is composed of multiple,
separable components that can be identified with specific
anatomical structures and connections. The third part of the book
focuses on molecular and cellular studies that show how individual
neurons and their synapses behave in a history-dependent manner.
This research concerns both brief changes in synaptic plasticity as
well as more lasting changes in connectivity, which depend on
altered gene expression and morphological growth and change.
Altogether, the chapters provide a rich summary of the breadth and
excitement of contemporary research on the biology of memory.
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.
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