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Action potential
Addiction
Adrenergic receptor
Adult
Albert Bandura
Alzheimer's disease
Amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Anxiety
Asperger syndrome
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Autism
Babbling
Behavior
Brain damage
Broca's area
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Cerebellum
Cerebral cortex
Childhood amnesia
Classical conditioning
Confabulation
Consciousness
Critical period
Daydream
Dementia
Disconnection syndrome
Donald Broadbent
Dyslexia
Electroconvulsive therapy
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Eyeblink conditioning
False memory
Fast mapping
Flashbulb memory
Forgetting
Fred Gage
Habituation
Henry Molaison
Hippocampus
Human brain
Huntington's disease
Hypnosis
Implicit learning
Infant
Lateralization of brain function
Learning
Long-term memory
Memory
Model organism
Mozart effect
Neuroimaging
Neuron
Nootropic
Peptic ulcer
Phobia
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Prefrontal cortex
Prenatal development
Propranolol
Prosopagnosia
Rapid eye movement sleep
Recall (memory)
Repressed memory
Result
Retrograde amnesia
Serial position effect
Short-term memory
Stuttering
Symptom
Synapsis
Temporal lobe
Theory of mind
Product details
- ISBN 9780691133119
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Memory is perhaps the most extraordinary phenomenon in the natural world. Every person's brain holds millions of bits of information in long-term storage. This vast memory store includes our extensive vocabulary and knowledge of language; the tremendous and unique variety of facts we've amassed; all the skills we've learned, from walking and talking to musical and athletic performance; many of the emotions we feel; and the continuous sensations, feelings, and understandings of the world we term consciousness. Without memory there can be no mind as we understand it. Focusing on cutting-edge research in behavioral science and neuroscience, Memory is a primer of our current scientific understanding of the mechanics of memory and learning. Over the past two decades, memory research has accelerated and we have seen an explosion of new knowledge about the brain. For example, there now exists a wide-ranging and successful applied science devoted exclusively to the study of memory that has yielded better procedures for eliciting valid recollections in legal settings and improved the diagnosis and treatment of memory disorders.
Everyone fascinated by the scope and power of the human brain will find this book unforgettable.
Richard F. Thompson is the William M. Keck Chair in Biological Sciences and professor of psychology and biological sciences at the University of Southern California. Stephen A. Madigan is associate professor of psychology at the University of Southern California.
