The Act of Remembering is the first volume devoted solely to autobiographical memory retrieval, and brings together contributions from leading researchers from around the world. It offers a number of theoretical views, tackling key questions such as functionality, the problem of volition, and the larger role of consciousness.
Deals with the development of memory in the first years of life. This title covers an introduction to normative development of memory during this period, and an introduction of a means of assessing memory in preverbal infants. It is suitable for both psychology researchers and students.
Deals with flashbulb memories (FBMs). This book considers the many developments including various models of FBM formation, advances in statistical methods and neuroscience, and two key public events, the death of Princess Diana and the September 11th attacks in the US, which can help test FBM.
* The first book to examine key topics and cutting-edge research in involuntary memory. * Discusses topics such as involuntary memories in everyday life, across the life-span, and in the laboratory; the special ways in which involuntary memories sometimes manifest themselves and a number of theoretical treatments of the topic.
Showcases the theoretical advances and findings by researchers whose work and careers have been influenced by Bjork. This book reviews the application of research on learning and memory to enhancing human performance, reflecting Bjork's staunch commitment to translating his findings and theories to real-world settings.
Presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. This book compiles reviews of factors influencing witnesses of all ages - children, adults, and the elderly. It also examines many controversial topics.
Are horrific experiences indelibly fixed in a victim's memory? Or does the mind protect itself by banishing traumatic memories from consciousness? How victims remember trauma is the most controversial issue in psychology today, spilling out of consulting rooms and laboratories to capture headlines, rupture families, provoke.
We cannot recollect the past without skewing it by our current perceptions. Using a constructivist approach ans systematic development of early recollection theory, this book invites students to engage in problem solving rather than merely read for content. It offers practitioners a step-by-step approach to interpretation of early recollections.
Attentional processes, engaged during an event's unfolding, are essential for allowing us to transform an experience into a memory. This book reviews the behavioral and neuroimaging evidence that has revealed effects of emotion on memory and attention in individuals with and without post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades.
Tells us why memory research is one of the most flourishing areas of science. This book brings together facts and theories of cognitive psychology; memory development in childhood and old age; memory impairment in brain injury and disease; the emergence of memory functions from the brain; and reviews of behavioral, neuroimaging and others.
This textbook provides an overview of research on the biological basis of memory. The book will be of use to cognitive scientists, biologists, and psychologists, and to undergraduate students seeking an expanded coverage of the neurobiology of memory for courses in learning and memory or behavioral and cognitive neuroscience.
Memory and Remembering adopts a uniquely broad approach, integrating laboratory, clinical and naturalistic findings to explain how memory operates in everyday life. Throughout theories and findings are illustrated with everyday examples which enable the student to relate conceptually difficult topics to their own experience.
The intellectual development of human beings from birth to adulthood is a fascinating phenomenon. This book attempts to address these issues by establishing a dialogue between neo-Piagetian theorists and researchers specialized in typical and atypical working memory development.
Memory is fundamental to our very existence. This title looks at the structure of memory, distinguishing between sensory memory and short- and long-term memory. It describes the causes of poor memory (tiredness, cognitive overload and poor concentration) and the key principles for improving it (attention, effort, motivation and meaning).
Dealing with the model created by the author(with Graham Hitch), this work discusses the developments that have occurred within the model, and places it within a broader context. It also discusses the implications of the model for understanding social and emotional behaviour.
Looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. This title traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances.
Memory is perhaps the most extraordinary phenomenon in the natural world. Without memory there can be no mind as we understand it. Focusing on research in behavioral science and neuroscience, this work is a primer of our scientific understanding of the mechanics of memory and learning.
Containing contributions from world leaders honouring Bruce Whittlesea's lifetime contribution to memory research, this volume reflects the current understanding amongst memory researchers that memory is more than passive acquisition and retrieval, but involves constructions, attributions, and inferences.
Out of all of the information that we experience, only a subset will become part of our memories. This book reviews behavioural and neuroimaging evidence that has revealed effects of emotion on memory and attention in individuals with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Is your memory hierarchy stopping your microprocessor from performing at the high level it should be? This book shows you how to resolve this problem. It helps you tackle the optimization problems that result from the side-effects that can appear at any point in the entire hierarchy.
From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists, and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich their works. This volume represents a multidisciplinary approach to the themes of citation and intertextual play. It includes essays that investigate work by renowned authors, composers, and artists.
In a number of highly-charged child abuse cases, teachers and parents have been wrongfully arrested because of claims of 'recovered memory'. But brain science is now discovering how memories can alter, or even be planted by leading questions. Sabbagh explains the latest findings, and argues that courts must be guided by them.
How reliable is memory, especially of events very long ago? Science is discovering how memories can alter, or even be planted. In a climate of obsession with child abuse, leading questioning of children and claims of 'recovered memory' have led to the wrongful arrest of teachers and parents. The science of memory needs to guide the courtroom.
A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies.
Introduces us to arguments and experiences, evocative moments and hard scientific debate on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives and our history together. This book is arranged in themed sections, and includes essays such as: 'Memory and Evolution'; 'Memory and Forgetting', and an account of the chemistry of the brain.
People seem to be intrigued by memory, and by its sometimes spectacular failure in (for example) people with amnesia. This book presents an overview and explanation of the scientific approach to memory and discusses the basic characteristics of the various memory systems and how they work.
The term 'episodic memory' refers to our memory for unique, and personal experiences that we can date at some point in our past. This book brings together a stellar team of contributors from the fields of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience, to present an account of what we now know about this fundamentally important topic.
Our capacity to store and retrieve information has fascinated cognitive and neuropsychologists for decades, and spawned generations of researchers from across the globe to study it from many angles. This collection collates those articles which represent the conceptual issues in human memory and demonstrate the key contemporary themes in memory.
This work makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. It looks at the factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, and illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way in which a witness is questioned.
One psychological function that has been found to play an important role in educational achievement of children is 'working memory', the processes involved in the temporary maintenance and manipulation of information. This book provides the reader with a review of the research that has identified how working memory relates to academic attainment.