Science of Memory
Concepts
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 May 2007
- ISBN 9780195310443
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 235x162x24 mm
- Weight 685 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 black & white photographs and 26 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume helps initiate a new science of memory. Currently, scientists study memory from many different perspectives - neurobiological, ethological, animal conditioning, cognitive, behavioural neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and social and cultural. This book brings together leading practitioners from all these approaches to come together to analyse and discuss 16 concepts that are critical to understanding memory. The contributors state their position of a particular concept and elucidate how the concept is used and how it should be used. For some concepts, there was general agreement across practitioners from different fields and levels of analysis, whereas for other concepts there was great disagreement. A final chapter in each of the 16 sections is devoted to particular concepts was written by another leading researcher whose task it was to integrate the various viewpoints and come to some conclusions about the concept at issue. This volume begins the new science of memory seeking a unified understanding of the topic.
MoreLong description:
The study of learning and memory occurs in several scientific traditions: neurobiology, neurogenetics, neurochemistry; animal learning and behaviour; behavioural neuroscience; ethological and evolutionary approaches; cognitive psychology; neuropsychology, computational modelling, and artifical intelligence all contribute. However, researchers using one approach typically work in relative isolation from those using other approaches. The aim of the volume is to bring together leading researchers in the various fields of learning and memory to discuss the field's core concepts, across disciplinary boundaries, with the hope that such discussion will enhance and reorient the field and lead to a more unified science of memory. Science of Memory: Concepts is not to be simply another edited volume that reports research by contributors, but rather a searching examination of 16 fundamental concepts in the field. For each, three position papers describe how the concept is viewed in the author's particular tradition. There is an integrator for each concept, who will pull together the main themes from the various contributions and elucidates key points of agreement and disagreement. The volume will begin with an introductory chapter by Yadin Dudai, Roddy Roediger, and Endel Tulving, and will end with a concluding chapter by Susan Fitzpatrick. Science of Memory is essential reading for professional researchers and students in all the various fields of learning and memory.
a fascinating book that I would definitely recommend to all interested in memory phenomena.
Table of Contents:
Memory Concepts
Section 1: Memory
It's all about representations
Why the engram is elusive
Delineating the core
Integrative comments: Distinctions and dilemmas
Section 2: Learning
A pre-theoretical concept
The need for a hybrid theory
Challenges in the merging of levels
Integrative comments: Multiplicity of mechanisms
Section 3: Coding and representation
Time, space, history and beyond
The importance of mesoscale dynamics
Searching for a home in the brain
Integrative comments: On appealing beliefs and paucity of data
Section 4: Plasticity
New concepts, new challenges
A pragmatic compromise
On the level
Integrative comments: More than memory
Section 5: Context
What's so special about it?
Mood, memory, and the concept of context
A reference for focal experience
Integrative comments: The concept in the human and animal memory domains
Section 6: Encoding
Models linking neural mechanisms to behavior
A cognitive perspective
Integrative comments: The proof is still required
Section 7: Working memory
Signals in the brain
Multiple models, multiple mechanisms
What it is, and what it is not
Integrative comments: The mind is richer than the models
Section 8: Consolidation
Molecular restlessness
Challenging the traditional view
The demise of the fixed trace
Integrative comments: From hypothesis to paradigm to concept
Section 9: Persistence
Necessary, but not sufficient
Discrepancies between behaviors and brains
Integrative comments: In search of molecular persistance
Section 10: Retrieval
Molecular mechanisms
Properties and effects
On its essence and related concepts
Integrative comments: Varieties and puzzles
Section 11: Remembering
Defining and measuring
A process and a state
Metacognitive monitoring and control processes
Integrative comments: A controversy and a challenge
Section 12: Transfer
Its transfer into neurobiology
Analysis in rats and other species
Rediscovering a central concept
Specificity and generality
Integrative comments: The ubiquitous concept
Section 13: Inhibition
Diversity of cortical function
Attentional regulation of cognition
Manifestations in long-term memory
Elusive or illusion?
Integrative comments: An essential and contentious concept
Section 14: Forgetting
Once again, its all about representations
The fate of once learned, but 'forgotten', material
Its role in the science of memory
Integrative comments: It's not just the opposite of remembering
Section 15: Memory systems
A biological concept
Multiple systems in the brain and their interactions
A cognitive construct for analysis and synthesis
Integrative comments: An incentive, not an endpoint
Section 16: Phylogeny and evolution
It takes two to tango
On comparing species at multiple levels
Implications for understanding the nature of a memory system
Epilogue
Remember the future
