Memory: Organization and Locus of Change

Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-19-506921-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

This book brings together an internationally respected group of researchers for the purpose of examining neuroplasticity, a topic of immense current interest in psychology, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and clinical neurology. The chapters represent state-of-the-art work on neuroplasticity at all levels: behavioural, neural, and molecular. They describe recent work on memory ranging from cellular morphological studies in invertebrates to research on the human brain made possible
by new advances in neuroimaging technology. The book begins with an introductory chapter that considers the psychology of memory at the global, structural level. The remainder of the volume is divided into three parts. The first focuses on recent approaches, which are based in part on new
technology, that aim to measure and describe activity in relatively large populations of neurons. The second focuses on memory at the level of brain systems. One major theme to emerge from work at this level is that memory is composed of multiple, separable components that can be identified with specific anatomical structures and connections. The third part of the book focuses on molecular and cellular studies that show how individual neurons and their synapses behave in a history-dependent
manner. This research concerns both brief changes in synaptic plasticity as well as more lasting changes in connectivity, which depend on altered gene expression and contemporary research on the biology of memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinberger, Norman M.

Squire, Larry R.

Lynch, Gary

McGaugh, James L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

E. Tulving: Concepts of human memory; Part I: Distribution of learning-induced brain activity: W.J. Freeman: Insights into processes of visual perception from studies in the olfactory syste,; A. Grinvald et al: Optical imaging of cortical activity in the living brain; M.E. Raichle: Modular organization of information processing in the normal human brain: studies with positron emission topography; P.E. Roland, B. Gulyas and R.J. Seitz: Structures in the human brain
participating in visual learning, tactile learning, and motor learning; H. Scheich, E. Wallhausser-Franke and K. Braun: Does synaptic selection explain auditory imprinting?; Part II: Functional roles of brain systems: H. Eichenbaum et al: Memory representation in the hippocampus: functional domain and functional
organization; J. LeDoux: Systems and synapses of emotional memory; G.H. Recanzone and M.M. Merzenich: Alterations of the functional organization of primary somatosensory cortex following intracortical microstimulation or behavioral training; Y. Miyashita et al: Localization of primal long-term memory in the primate temporal cortex; D.S. Olton et al: Mnemonic functions of the cholinergic septohippocampal system; Part III: Locus of cellular change: C.H. Bailey and M. Chen: The
anatomy of long-term sensitization in Aplysia: morphological insights into learning and memory; C.M. Gall and J.C. Lauterborn: Activity-dependent neuronal gene expression: a potential memory mechanism; G. Lynch et al: Relating variants of synaptic potentiation to different types of memory operations in hippocampus and
related structures; E.N. Sokolov: Local plasticity in neuronal learning; S.P.R. Rose: What the chick can tell us about the process and structure of memory.