From Conditioning to Conscious Recollection

Memory Systems of the Brain
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-517804-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 892 g

This cutting-edge book offers a theoretical account of the evolution of multiple memory systems of the brain. The authors conceptualize these memory systems from both behavioural and neurobiological perspectives, guided by three related principles. First, that our understanding of a wide range of memory phenomena can be advanced by breaking down memory into multiple forms with different operating characteristics. Second, that different forms of memory representation are supported by distinct brain pathways with circuitry and neural coding properties. Third, that the contributions of different brain systems can be compared and contrasted by distinguishing between dedicated (or specific) and elaborate (or general) memory systems. A primary goal of this work is to relate the neurobiological properties of dedicated and elaborate systems to their neuropsychological counterparts, and in so doing, account for the phenomenology of memory, from conditioning to conscious recollection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eichenbaum, Howard

Cohen, Neal J.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: How is memory organized in the brain

- 2: Multiple memory systems: a historical perspective

- Part I: Fundamentals

- 3: Cellular plasticity mechanisms

- 4: The cerebral cortex and memory

- Part II: The brain system that mediates declarative memory

- 5: Hippocampal function in humans: insights from amnesia and functional brain imaging

- 6: Animal models of amnesia: the non-human primate

- 7: Animal models of amnesia: non-primates

- 8: The repression of experience in hippocampal neuronal activity

- 9: The hippocampal memory system

- 10: Memory consolidation

- Part III: Specialized memory systems of the brain

- 11: Dissociating multiple memory systems in the brain

- 12: Emotional memory and memory modulation

- 13: Habits, skills, and procedural memory

- 14: Working memory and the prefrontal cortex

- 15: Multiple memory systems in the brain: where do we stand?

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Eichenbaum, Professor of Psychology, Boston University, USA and Neal J. Cohen, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois, USA