Memory Arena

Remembering the Times of Our Lives

Memory in Infancy and Beyond

• By Patricia J. Bauer.

Published August 2006

The purpose of Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond is to trace the development from infancy through adulthood in the capacity to form, retain, and later retrieve autobiographical or personal memories. It is appropriate for scholars and researchers in the fields of…
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Memory Editing Mechanisms

A Special Issue of Memory

• Edited by James Michael Lampinen, and Timothy N. Odegard.

Published August 2006

This special issue of Memory is devoted to an investigation of those mechanisms by which memory is edited for inaccuracies and inconsistencies. In the past 20 years false memories have been investigated from a variety of different angles. Substantial evidence indicates that false memories can be…
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Progress in Psychological Science around the World. Volume 1 Neural, Cognitive and Developmental Issues.

Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology

• Edited by Qicheng Jing, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Gery d'Ydewalle, Houcan Zhang, Hsuan-Chih Chen and Kan Zhang.

Published July 2006

Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and…
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Integrative Views on Dual-task Costs

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

• Edited by Guido P.H Band, and Pierre Jolicoeur.

Published July 2006

It is well known that the capacity for both simultaneous and rapid sequential information processing is limited. In the past two decades, at least four different approaches for the investigation and explanation of dual-task interference have developed. Surprisingly, these developments have taken…
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Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Psychopathology

A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

• Edited by D Hermans, Filip Raes, Pierre Philipott and Ismay Kremers.

Published May 2006

It has been repeatedly demonstrated that depression and reported history of trauma are associated with a difficulty in retrieving specific autobiographical memories, a phenomenon called overgeneral memory (Williams & Broadbent, 1986). Over the past twenty years there has been a stimulating…
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Young Children's Cognitive Development

Interrelationships Among Executive Functioning, Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Theory of Mind

• Edited by Wolfgang Schneider, Ruth Schumann-Hengsteler and Beate Sodian.

Published March 2006

A critical part of early childhood development is the development of "theory of mind" (ToM), which is the ability to take the perspective of another person. The main purpose of this book is to discuss and integrate findings from prominent research areas in developmental psychology that are…
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Memory and Society

Psychological Perspectives

• Edited by Lars-Göran Nilsson, and Nobuo Ohta.

Published February 2006

Memory and Society explores the social factors which influence human memory and our conceptualisation of memory. It examines the relationships between memory, society and culture and considers the relevance of theories of memory to real world issues. The opening section deals with the topic of…
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The Search for Meaning

Internal States Language in Autobiographical Memory: A Special Issue of the Journal of Cognition and Development

• Edited by Robyn Fivush, and Lynne Baker-Ward.

Published October 2005

The history of psychological research on human memory has largely focused on a search for accuracy. How does individual recall match an objective, external record of an event? But, equally fundamental is the search for meaning in memory. How do individuals strive to make sense of their worlds? This…
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Working Memory Capacity

• By Nelson Cowan.

Published September 2005

The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information a person can hold…
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The Role of Medial Temporal Lobe in Memory and Perception: Evidence from Rats, Nonhuman Primates and Humans

A Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section B

• Edited by Kim Graham, and David Gaffan.

Published August 2005

While it is commonly accepted that structures in the medial temporal lobe play a critical role in memory, current theories disagree on three fundamental issues: (a) the extent to which different regions within the medial temporal lobe can be functionally dissociated; (b) whether structures within…
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