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Memory, Aging and the Brain
A Festschrift in Honour of Lars-Göran Nilsson
- Edited by Lars Bäckman, and Lars Nyberg.
Published July 2009
This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory. More than this however, the book pays tribute to the work of Lars-Göran Nilsson and his many contributions to the psychology of human memory.
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Principles of Memory
- By Aimée M. Surprenant, and Ian Neath.
Published June 2009
In over 100 years of scientific research on human memory, and nearly 50 years after the so-called cognitive revolution, we have nothing that really constitutes a widely accepted and frequently cited law of memory, and perhaps only one generally accepted principle. The purpose of this monograph is…
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Episodic Memory and Healthy Ageing
A Special Issue of Memory
- Edited by Chris Moulin, Moshe Naveh-Benjamin and Celine Souchay.
Published March 2009
A characteristic feature of the aging process is a decline in episodic memory, that form of memory related to a particular time and place in an individual’s personal history. This volume gathers together articles by leaders in the field exploring aging and episodic memory in healthy adults. These…
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Binding
A Special Issue of Visual Cognition
- Edited by James R. Brockmole, and Steven L. Franconeri.
Published February 2009
Visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed features such as color, shape, and orientation. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the…
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Memory
- By Alan Baddeley, Michael W. Eysenck and Michael C. Anderson.
Published February 2009
People seem to be intrigued by memory, and by its sometimes spectacular failure in (for example) people with amnesia. However, students of memory sometimes fail to retain this fascination. The reason is clear: in order to study memory we must carry out carefully-designed experiments, which can seem…
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Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan
- By Elizabeth A. Kensinger.
Published December 2008
Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response. Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones, and over the past couple of decades there…
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From Individual to Collective Memory: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
A Special Issue of Memory
- Edited by Amanda J. Barnier, and John Sutton.
Published December 2008
This special issue of Memory is devoted to discussions and investigations of social memory phenomena. Very often our memories of the past are of events we shared with others and very often we share in remembering with others -- when parents and children reminisce about significant family events,…
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Flashbulb Memories
New Issues and New Perspectives
- Edited by Olivier Luminet, and Antonietta Curci.
Published November 2008
We all have memories of highly emotional personal and public events that may have happened some years ago but which are felt as strongly as if they happened yesterday. We remember where they happened, the people who were with us, and seemingly irrelevant details such as the weather, particular…
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The Visual World in Memory
- Edited by James R. Brockmole.
Published October 2008
The book examines how well we remember what we see. Research in human memory for visual material varies tremendously across the time scales, stimuli, and scenarios of interest. Because of these distinct pursuits, research in the field of 'visual memory' is in practice rather compartmentalized and…
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The Development of Memory in Infancy and Childhood
- Edited by Mary Courage, and Nelson Cowan.
Published September 2008
Human memory is not only the repository of our past but the essence of who we are. As such, it is of enduring fascination. We marvel at its resilience in some situations and its fragility in others. The origin of this extraordinary cognitive capacity in infancy and childhood is the focus of…
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