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An accessible synthesis of memory research that discusses the creation of memory representations, the processes of storage and retrieval, and the effectiveness of encoding information. The field of memory research is subdivided into many separate and non-overlapping topic areas that often employ specialized tools and models. This book offers an accessible synthesis of memory research that explores how memory works, how it is organized, and how it changes dynamically. Written by an expert in the field, it can be used by undergraduate and graduate students of psychology and as a reference by researchers who want to fill in gaps in their knowledge. The book focuses on three general topics that cover a vast amount of research in the field: how a memory representation is created, how the cognitive processes of storage and retrieval can be studied and measured, and the process of encoding information and its varying degrees of effectiveness. Specific subjects addressed include habituation and sensitization, and the neurobiological changes that underlie them; evidence for a cognitive component underlying Pavlovian conditioning; biological constraints on a cognitive model of memory; an information-processing framework for memory; misconceptions about memory, including the static memory myth and the permanent memory myth; model-based measurement of storage and retrieval processes; a critique of the concept of memory strength; the distinction between implicit and explicit memory; and learning and repetition. Although the writing is accessible to the nonspecialist, the density of information is high. The text avoids jargon, and a glossary defines key terms. The notes expand on technical details and point to interesting related ideas.
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When recalling events that one personally experienced, one often visualises the remembered scene as one originally saw it: from an internal visual perspective. Sometimes, however, one sees oneself in the remembered scene: from an external 'observer perspective'. In such cases one remembers from-the-outside. This book is about such memories. Remembering from-the-outside is a common yet curious case of personal memory: one views oneself from a perspective one seemingly could not have had at the time of the original event. How can past events be recalled from a detached perspective? How is it that the self is observed? And how can we account for the self-presence of such memories? Indeed, can there be genuine memories recalled from-the-outside? If memory preserves past perceptual content then how can one see oneself from-the-outside in memory? This book disentangles the puzzles posed by remembering from-the-outside. The book develops a dual-faceted approach for thinking about memory, which acknowledges constructive and reconstructive processes at encoding and at retrieval, and it uses this approach to defend the possibility of genuine memories being recalled from-the-outside. In so doing it also elucidates the nature of such memories and sheds light on the nature of personal memory. The book argues that field and observer perspectives are different ways of thinking about a particular past event. Further, by exploring the ways we have of getting outside of ourselves in memory and other cognitive domains, the book sheds light on the nature of our perspectival minds.
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• Memoria, tiempo y olvido
• Memoria, identidad y reencuentro
• Tener en la memoria, recorda y rememoración
• Memoria, sueños y viajes
• Memoria, arte y fertilidad.

• 1. What are Extraordinary Memories and Exceptional Events?
• 2. Metaphors and Foundations.
• 3. Flashbulb Memories.
• 4. Emotional Significance: Laboratory Studies.
• 5. Secondary Distinctiveness: Memory for the Bizarre and Unusual.
• 6. Primary Distinctiveness: Escape from Monotony.
• 7. Summary and Conclusions: What Supports Outstanding Memories? References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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Not all memories are created equal. Our memories for some very exceptional events seem to stand out in our minds, and as such they may form the very core of who we are. Perhaps you have a vivid recollection of a fateful day, an unforgettable face, or a hilarious joke. This book summarizes theories and data that provide insight into these extraordinary memories for exceptional events. The book begins with a classification scheme for exceptional events, followed by a theoretical overview grounded in four metaphors of memory. The classification scheme and theoretical perspectives are used to explore topics including: flashbulb memories, the influence of emotion on memory, the bizarre imagery effect, the humor effect, the serial position effect, and the isolation effect. The conclusion provides a framework for understanding these outstanding memories for exceptional events.
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• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Historical Background
• 1.2 Association, Context, and Episodic Memory
• 1.3 Methods Used in Studying Memory
• 1.4 The Laws of Repetition and Recency
• 1.5 Cognitivism
• 1.6 Organization of the Book
• 2 Item Recognition
• 2.1 Strength Theory
• 2.2 Multiple Sources of Strength?
• 2.3 Major Findings Concerning Item Recognition
• 2.4 Sternberg's Procedure
• 2.5 Summary and Current Directions
• 2.6 Study Questions
• 3 Attribute Models
• 3.1 Attributes
• 3.2 A Multi-trace Distributed Memory Model
• 3.3 Similarity Effects
• 3.4 The Diffusion Model of Reaction Time
• 3.5 Context Revisited
• 3.6 Summary and Current Directions
• 3.7 List-strength Effect
• 3.8 A Unitrace Attribute Model
• 3.9 Study Questions
• 4 Associations and Cued Recall
• 4.1 Major Associative Tasks
• 4.2 Encoding and Repetition
• 4.3 Recency and List Length
• 4.4 Retrieval Errors
• 4.5 Retroactive Interference and Recovery
• 4.6 Proactive Interference
• 4.7 Context and Interference Theory
• 4.8 Similarity and Interference
• 4.9 Unlearning as Inhibition
• 4.10 Interference Theory: Concluding Remarks
• 4.11 Item and Associative Information
• 4.12 Summary and Current Directions
• 4.13 Study Questions
• 5 Models of Association
• 5.1 The Attribute-Similarity Framework
• 5.2 Neural Network Models
• 5.3 Summary and Current Directions
• 5.4 More on Linear Associators
• 5.5 Project: Cued Recall in a Hopfield Net
• 5.6 Study Questions
• 6 Free Recall and Memory Search
• 6.1 Serial-position Effects
• 6.2 Retrieval Dynamics
• 6.3 Semantic Clustering
• 6.4 Intrusions
• 6.5 Repetition Effects
• 6.6 Summary and Current Directions
• 6.7 Study Questions
• 7 Models of Free Recall
• 7.1 Dual-store Memory Search Models
• 7.2 Testing Dual-Store Models
• 7.3 Problems for Dual-store Models
• 7.4 Single-store retrieved-context models
• 7.5 Testing Retrieved Context Theory
• 7.6 Summary and Current Directions
• 7.7 Study Questions
• 8 Sequence Memory
• 8.1 Serial Recall and Memory Span
• 8.2 Serial-Position Effects
• 8.3 Modality and Suffix Effects: Evidence for a phonological STS?
• 8.4 Recall Errors
• 8.5 Associative Asymmetry
• 8.6 Grouping Effects
• 8.7 Summary and Current Directions
• 8.8 Study Questions
• 9 Theories of Sequence Memory
• 9.1 Associative Chaining
• 9.2 Positional Coding
• 9.3 Eight Critical Findings
• 9.4 Chaining vs. Positional Coding
• 9.5 Hierarchical Associative Theory
• 9.6 Summary and Current Directions
• References
• Author Index
• Index.
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Foundations of Human Memory provides an introduction to the scientific study of human memory with an emphasis on both the major theories of memory and the laboratory studies that have been used to test those theories and inspire their further development. Written with the undergraduate student in mind, the text assumes no specific background in the subject, but a general familiarity with scientific method and quantitative approaches to the treatment of data. Foundations of human memory is organized around the major empirical paradigms used to study memory in the laboratory and the theories used to explain data obtained using those paradigms. The text begins with a focus on memory for individual items, building up to memory for associations between items, and finally to memory for entire sequences of items and the problem of memory search. Several major theories of memory are considered in detail, including strength theory, summed-similarity theory, neural network based theories, retrieved-context theory, and theories based on the division of memory into separate short-term and long-term storage systems. The text emphasizes basic research over applied problems, but brings in real-world examples and neuroscientific evidence as appropriate.
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• The engram revisited : on the elusive permanence of memory / Yadin Dudai
• Molecular genetics approaches to memory consolidation / Alcino J. Silva
• The epigenetic variability of memory : brain plasticity and artistic creation / Jean-Pierre Changeux
• Memory in sleep and dreams : the construction of meaning / Robert Stickgold
• The mnemonic brain : neuroimaging, neuropharmacology, and disorders of memory / Paul M. Matthews
• Memory as a constructive process : the parallel distributed processing approach / James L. McClelland
• Emotional memory processing : synaptic connectivity / Jopseph E. LeDoux and Valérie Doyère
• Functions of human emotional memory : the brain and emotion / Edmund T. Rolls
• Memory and neurophilosophy / John Bickle
• Confabulations about personal memories, normal and abnormal / William Hirstein
• The neuroethics of memory / Walter Glannon
• Autobiographical memory in modernist literature and neuroscience / Suzanne Nalbantian
• Memory and imagination in romantic fiction / Alan Richardson
• Memory in the literary memoir / John Burt Foster, Jr.
• Memory in theater : the scene is memory / Atillio Favorini
• Memory in art : history and the neuroscience of response / David Freedberg
• Memory in musical form : from Bach to Ives / David Michael Hertz
• Neurocognitive approaches to memory in music : music is memory / Barbara Tillmann, Isabelle Peretz, and Séverine Samson
• Memory, movies, and the brain / Fernando Vidal.

The convergence of neuroscience, philosophy, art, music, and literature offers valuable new insights into the study of memory. The Memory Process offers a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of human memory, with contributions from both neuroscientists and humanists. The first book to link the neuroscientific study of memory to the investigation of memory in the humanities, it connects the latest findings in memory research with insights from philosophy, literature, theater, art, music, and film. Chapters from the scientific perspective discuss both fundamental concepts and ongoing debates from genetic and epigenetic approaches, functional neuroimaging, connectionist modeling, dream analysis, and neurocognitive studies. The humanist analyses offer insights about memory from outside the laboratory: a taxonomy of memory gleaned from modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and William Faulkner; the organization of memory, seen in drama ranging from Hamlet to The Glass Menagerie; procedural memory and emotional memory in responses to visual art; music's dependence on the listener's recall; and the vivid renderings of memory and forgetting in such films as Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The chapters from the philosophical perspective serve as the bridge between science and the arts. The volume's sweeping introduction offers an integrative merging of neuroscientific and humanistic findings. Contributors John Bickle, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Valerie Doyere, Yadin Dudai, Atillio Favorini, John Burt Foster, David Freedberg, Walter Glannon, Robert Stickgold, David Hertz, William Hirstein, Joseph LeDoux, Paul Matthews, James L. McClelland, Suzanne Nalbantian, Isabelle Peretz, Alan Richardson, Edmund Rolls, Severine Samson, Alcino Silva, Barbara Tillmann, Fernando Vidal.
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• Preface-- Ironic Effects of Censorship: Generating Censored Lyrics Enhances Memory-- Studying with Music: Is the Irrelevant Speech Effect Relevant?-- Verbalising Musical Memories-- The Isolation Effect and Advertising: Are Unusual Advertisements Remembered Better?-- Applied Part Set Cuing-- Hypermnesia, Reminiscence, and Repeated Testing-- Placebos and Memory-- Flashbulb Memory for September 11 and the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster-- The Magnitude Gap: Revealing Differences in Recall between Victims and Perpetrators-- Prospective Person Memory-- Remembering Social Information: A Functional Analysis-- Can We Determine the Functions of Everyday Involuntary Autobiographical Memories?-- Remembering What We Did: How Source Misattributions Arise From Verbalization, Mental Imagery, & Pictures-- Children in an Information Society: The Relations between Source Monitoring, Mental-State, Understanding and Knowledge Acquisition in Young Children-- Childrens Strategic Regulation of Memory Accuracy-- Applying Memory Theory to Dream Recall: Are Dreams and Waking Memories the Same?-- Our Lifes Long Term Work with Our Small Short-Term Memory: Building Basic Memories into More Complex Knowledge-- Index.
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The goal of the applied memory volume is to highlight many interesting and creative applications of basic memory phenomena that are underrepresented, or even unrepresented, in the literature. Authors were charged with the task of reviewing relevant basic and applied research and offering new empirical investigations into the applications of these benchmark phenomena. To this end, Applied Memory, consists of 17 chapters that explore the influences of generation, irrelevant speech, verbal overshadowing, isolation, part-set cuing, reminiscence, hyperemnesia, placebos, mental state, metamemory knowledge, flashbulb events, and traumatic events on memory in everyday settings, as well as applications of source memory, social memory, involuntary autobiographical memory, dream memory, and strategic memory regulation. The volume is designed as a resource for basic and applied memory researchers and as a supplementary text in graduate or upper-level undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology, human memory, or applied psychology.
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Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response. Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones, and over the past couple of decades there has been an increased interest in understanding how emotion conveys this memory benefit. This book begins with a broad overview of emotion, memory, and the neural underpinnings of each, providing the reader with an appreciation of the complex interplay between emotion and memory. It then examines how emotion influences young adults' abilities to store information temporarily, or over the long term. It explains emotion's influence on the memory processes that young adults use consciously and on the processes that guide young adults' preferences and actions without their awareness.This book then moves on to describe how each of these influences of emotion are affected by the aging process, and by age-related disease, providing the reader with a lifespan perspective of emotional memory. Within each of the domains covered, the book integrates research from cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychological perspectives, examining both the behavioral and thought processes that lead to emotion's effects on memory and also the underlying brain processes that guide those influences of emotion. This book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in memory, emotion, and aging, working in the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive or affective neuroscience, and developmental or lifespan psychology.
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• Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction
• 1. Memory and Inscription
• 2. Memory and the self
• 3. Involuntary memories
• 4. Collective memory Conclusion: The Art of Forgetting? Bibliography.
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The concept of 'memory' has given rise to some of the most exciting new directions in contemporary theory. In this much-needed guide to a burgeoning field of a study, Anne Whitehead: presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memory; examines debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts; introduces the reader to key thinkers in the field, from ancient Greece to the present day; and traces the links between theorisations and literary representations of memory. Offering a clear and succinct guide to one of the most important terms in contemporary theory, this volume is essential reading for anyone entering the field of Memory Studies, or seeking to understand current developments in Cultural and Literary Studies.
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• Preface
• 1. You Are Your Memory
• 2. Mapping Your Memories
• 3. Pulling the Rabbit Out of the Hat...
• 4. Sometimes It Works and Sometimes It Doesn't
• 5. Losing It
• 6. The Seven Ages of Man
• 7. Improving Memory
• Further Reading & References.
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Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well sometimes and not others? What happens when it goes wrong? Can memory be improved or manipulated, by psychological techniques or even 'brain implants'? How does memory grow and change as we age? And what of so-called 'recovered' memories? This book brings together the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, and weaves in case-studies, anecdotes, and even literature and philosophy, to address these and many other important questions about the science of memory - how it works, and why we can't live without it. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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• From mind to molecules
• Modifiable synapses for nondeclarative memory
• Molecules for short-term memory
• Declarative memory
• Brain systems for declarative memory
• A synaptic storage mechanism for declarative memory
• From short-term memory to long-term memory
• Priming, perceptual learning, and emotional learning
• Memory for skills, habits, and conditioning
• Memory and the biological basis of individuality.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.
• Chapter 2: Systems or Process?
• Chapter 3: Principles 1 &
• 2.
• Chapter 4: Principle
• 3.
• Chapter 5: Principle
• 4: The hierarchical principle.
• Chapter 6: Principle
• 5: The Reconstruction Principle.
• Chapter 7: Principle
• 6: The Impurity Principle.
• Chapter 8: Principle
• 7: The Relative Distinctiveness Principle.
• Chapter 9: Invariance of Principles.
• Chapter 10: Limitations, Summary, and Conclusions. References.
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In over 100 years of scientific research on human memory, and nearly 50 years after the so-called cognitive revolution, we have nothing that really constitutes a widely accepted and frequently cited law of memory, and perhaps only one generally accepted principle. The purpose of this monograph is to begin to rectify this situation by proposing 7 principles of human memory that apply to all memory. These principles are qualitative statements of empirical regularities that can serve as intermediary explanations and which follow from viewing memory as a function. They apply to all types of information, to all memory systems, and to all time scales. The principles highlight important gaps in our knowledge, challenge existing organizational views of memory, and suggest important new lines of research.This volume is intended for people (from advanced undergraduates to seasoned researchers) in the field of memory, although it will be of interest to those who would like a comprehensive overview of the fundamental regularities in cognitive functioning.
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• 1. Memory Concepts--
• Section 1: Memory--
• 2. It's all about representations--
• 3. Why the engram is elusive--
• 4. Delineating the core--
• 5. Integrative comments: Distinctions and dilemmas--
• Section 2: Learning--
• 6. A pre-theoretical concept--
• 7. The need for a hybrid theory--
• 8. Challenges in the merging of levels--
• 9. Integrative comments: Multiplicity of mechanisms--
• Section 3: Coding and representation--
• 10. Time, space, history and beyond--
• 11. The importance of mesoscale dynamics--
• 12. Searching for a home in the brain--
• 13. Integrative comments: On appealing beliefs and paucity of data--
• Section 4: Plasticity--
• 14. New concepts, new challenges--
• 15. A pragmatic compromise--
• 16. On the level--
• 17. Integrative comments: More than memory--
• Section 5: Context--
• 18. What's so special about it?--
• 19. Mood, memory, and the concept of context--
• 20. A reference for focal experience--
• 21. Integrative comments: The concept in the human and animal memory domains--
• Section 6: Encoding--
• 22. Models linking neural mechanisms to behavior--
• 23. A cognitive perspective--
• 24. Integrative comments: The proof is still required--
• Section 7: Working memory--
• 25. Signals in the brain--
• 26. Multiple models, multiple mechanisms--
• 27. What it is, and what it is not--
• 28. Integrative comments: The mind is richer than the models--
• Section 8: Consolidation--
• 29. Molecular restlessness--
• 30. Challenging the traditional view--
• 31. The demise of the fixed trace--
• 32. Integrative comments: From hypothesis to paradigm to concept--
• Section 9: Persistence--
• 33. Necessary, but not sufficient--
• 34. Discrepancies between behaviors and brains--
• 35. Integrative comments: In search of molecular persistance--
• Section 10: Retrieval--
• 36. Molecular mechanisms--
• 37. Properties and effects--
• 38. On its essence and related concepts--
• 39. Integrative comments: Varieties and puzzles--
• Section 11: Remembering--
• 40. Defining and measuring--
• 41. A process and a state--
• 42. Metacognitive monitoring and control processes--
• 43. Integrative comments: A controversy and a challenge--
• Section 12: Transfer--
• 44. Its transfer into neurobiology--
• 45. Analysis in rats and other species--
• 46. Rediscovering a central concept--
• 47. Specificity and generality--
• 48. Integrative comments: The ubiquitous concept--
• Section 13: Inhibition--
• 49. Diversity of cortical function--
• 50. Attentional regulation of cognition--
• 51. Manifestations in long-term memory--
• 52. Elusive or illusion?--
• 53. Integrative comments: An essential and contentious concept--
• Section 14: Forgetting--
• 54. Once again, its all about representations--
• 55. The fate of once learned, but 'forgotten', material--
• 56. Its role in the science of memory--
• 57. Integrative comments: It's not just the opposite of remembering--
• Section 15: Memory systems--
• 58. A biological concept--
• 59. Multiple systems in the brain and their interactions--
• 60. A cognitive construct for analysis and synthesis--
• 61. Integrative comments: An incentive, not an endpoint--
• Section 16: Phylogeny and evolution--
• 62. It takes two to tango--
• 63. On comparing species at multiple levels--
• 64. Implications for understanding the nature of a memory system-- Epilogue--
• 66. Remember the future.
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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.
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• I BASIC ISSUES--
• 1. The Concept of Distinctiveness in Memory Research--
• 2. Modelling Distinctiveness: Implications for General Memory Theory--
• 3. Emotion, Significance, Distinctiveness and Memory--
• 4. Encoding and Retrieval Processes in Distinctiveness Effects: Toward an Integrative Framework--
• 5. Reducing Memory Errors: The Distinctiveness Heuristic--
• 6. Assessing Distinctiveness: Measures of Item-Specific and Relational Processing-- II BIZARRENESS--
• 7. Resolution of Discrepant Memory Strengths: An Explanation of the Effects of Bizarreness on Memory--
• 8. Memory for Bizarre and Other Unusual Events: Evidence from Script Research-- III DISTINCTIVENESS AND IMPLICIT MEMORY TESTS--
• 9. Conceptual Implicit Memory and the Item-Specific - Relational Distinction--
• 10. The Distinctiveness Effect in Explicit and Implicit Memory-- IV DISTINCTIVENESS AND MEMORY ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN--
• 11. Distinctiveness Effects in Children's Memory--
• 12. Adult Age Differences in Episodic Memory: Item-Specific, Relational and Distinctive Processing-- V DISTINCTIVENESS IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT--
• 13. The Effects of Social Distinctiveness: The Phenomenology of Being in a Group--
• 14. Distinctiveness and Memory: A Comparison of the Social and Cognitive Literatures-- VI THE NEUROSCIENCE OF DISTINCTIVENESS AND MEMORY--
• 15. Multiple Electrophysiological Indices of Distinctiveness--
• 16. Neural Correlates of Incongruity--
• 17. Stimulus Novelty Effects on Recognition Memory: Behavioral Properties and Neuroanantomical Substrates-- VII DENOUEMENT--
• 18. What Do Explanations of the Distinctiveness Effect Need to Explain?--
• 19. Distinctiveness and Memory: Comments and a Point of View.
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The basic laboratory technique for studying distinctiveness effect in memory is the isolation paradigm, a simple test in which a list of items is presented for memorisation. All items except one are similar in some way. The different item always occurs late in the list, to allow the similarity of the precedingitems to establish a context. Subsequent memory for the different item is always better than for the similar items. In 1948, Jenkins and Postman offered the intuitive-differential attention explanation to account for this difference in memory, that an item is remembered because it catches the subject's attention by violating the established context, so leads the subject to devote additional processing to it. It is this additional processing that accounts for enhanced memory. Since 1948, succeeding theories have accepted and perpetuated their explanation. In fact, the isolation effect and the intuitive explanation have applied to most other memory phenomena that fall under the rubric of bizarreness, salience and novelty. The contributors to the proposed volume argue that the intuitive-differential-attention explanation and theories following from it are incorrect.The purpose of the volume is to test these currently accepted theories by contrasting them with the results of current research on the processes supporting them. The result is a much needed restructuring of the theories.
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• The concept of distinctiveness in memory research / R. Reed Hunt
• Modeling distinctiveness : implications for general memory theory / James S. Nairne
• Emotion, significance, distinctiveness, and memory / Stephen R. Schmidt
• Encoding and retrieval processes in distinctiveness effects : toward an integrative framework / Mark A. McDaniel and Lisa Geraci
• Reducing memory errors : the distinctiveness heuristic / Daniel L. Schacter and Amy L. Wiseman
• Assessing distinctiveness : measures of item-specific and relational processing / Daniel J. Burns
• Resolution of discrepant memory strengths : an explanation of the effects of bizarreness on memory / James B. Worthen
• Memory for bizarre and other unusual events : evidence from script research / Denise Davidson
• Conceptual implicit memory and the item-specific relational distinction / Neil W. Mulligan
• The distinctiveness effect in explicit and implicit memory / Lisa Geraci and Suparna Rajaram
• Distinctiveness effects in children's memory / Mark L. Howe
• Adult age differences in episodic memory : item-specific, relational, and distinctive processing / Rebekah E. Smith
• The effects of social distinctiveness : the phenomenology of being in a group / Brian Mullen and Carmen Pizzuto
• Distinctiveness and memory : a comparison of the social and cognitive literatures / Susan Coats and Eliot R. Smith
• Multiple electrophysiological indices of distinctiveness / Monica Fabiani
• Neural correlates of incongruity / Pascale Michelon and Abraham Z. Snyder
• Stimulus novelty effects on recognition memory : behavioral properties and neuroanantomical [sic] substrates / Mark M. Kishiyama and Andrew P. Yonelinas
• What do explanations of the distinctivenenss effect need to explain? / Endel Tulving and R. Shayna Rosenbaum
• Distinctiveness and memory : comments and a point of view / Fergus I.M. Craik.

• 1. Introduction - Levels of binding: types, mechanisms and functions of binding in remembering--
• SECTION I - NEURAL MECHANISMS OF BINDING--
• 2. Memory binding in hippocampal relational networks--
• 3. Part or parcel? Contextual binding of events in episodic memory--
• 4. Adaptive binding--
• 5. Binding principles in the theta frequency range--
• 6. Relationship between event-related potentials and oscillatory dynamics in episodic retrieval--
• 7. Rhinal-hippocampal contribution to declarative memory formation--
• SECTION II - A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO MECHANISMS OF BINDING--
• 8. Neural mechanisms of binding in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from computational models--
• 9. The memory chain model of learning, forgetting and disorders of long-term memory--
• 10. The role of time in human memory and binding: a review of the evidence--
• 11. Aging deficits in neuromodulation of representational distinctiveness and conjunctive binding: computational explorations of possible links--
• SECTION III - BINDING IN PERCEPTION AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION--
• 12. Object tokens, binding and visual memory--
• 13. Psychophysiological evidence for binding and unbinding arithmetic knowledge representations--
• 14. Motivated binding: top-down influences in the encoding of compound objects--
• 15. Brain correlates of binding processes of emotion and memory--
• SECTION IV - BINDING PROCESSES DURING RETRIEVAL--
• 16. Associations and dissociations in recognition memory systems--
• 17. Unpacking explicit memory: the contribution of recollection and familiarity--
• 18. ERP explorations of dual processes in recognition memory--
• 19. Mnemonic binding in the medial temporal lobe--
• 20. Functional imaging studies of intentional and incidental reactivation: implications for the binding problem--
• 21. Binding memory fragments together to form declarative memories depends on cross-cortical storage--
• 22. Retrieval inhibition in episodic recall: effects on feature binding--
• SECTION V - BINDING IN THE AGING BRAIN--
• 23. Remembering items and their contexts: effects of aging and divided attention--
• 24. Prefrontal and medial temporal lobe contributions to relational memory in young and older adults--
• 25. Binding of memories: adult-age differences and the effects of divided attention in young on episodic memory--
• 26. Binding of source and content: new directions revealed by neuropsychological and age-related effects--
• 27. Age-associated changes in episodic memory: event-related potential (ERP) investigations of recollection and familiarity--
• 28. Episodic memory impairment in preclinical Alzheimer's disease.
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The creation and consolidation of a memory can rest on the integration of any number of possibly disparate features and contexts - colour, sound, emotion, arousal, context. How is it that these bind together to form a coherent memory? What is the role of binding in memory formation? What are the neural processes that underlie binding? Do these binding processes change with age? This book offers an unrivalled overview of one of the most debated hotspots of modern memory research: binding. It contains 28 chapters on binding in different domains of memory, presenting classic research from the field of cognitive neuroscience. It is written by renowned scientists and leaders in the field who have made fundamental contributions to the rapidly expanding field of neurocognitive memory research. As well as presenting a state-of-the-art account of recent views on binding and its importance for remembering, it also includes a review of recent publications in the area, of benefit to both students and active researchers.More than just a survey, it supplies the reader with an integrative view on binding in memory, fostering deep insights not only into the processes and their determinants, but also into the neural mechanisms enabling these processes. The content also encompasses a wide range of binding-related topics, including feature binding, the binding of items and contexts during encoding and retrieval, the specific roles of familiarity and recollection, as well as task- and especially age-related changes in these processes. A major section is dedicated to in-depth analyses of underlying neural mechanisms, focusing on both medial temporal and prefrontal structures. Computational approaches are covered as well. For all students and researchers in memory, the book will not only enhance their understanding of binding, but will instigate innovative and pioneering ideas for future research.
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In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. The founder of modern psychiatry, Sigmund Freud powerfully believed that conscious decisions are underpinned by a guiding subconscious that can be understood only by analysis. Taken from one of his most important works, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, published in a new translation in Penguin Modern Classics, this volume explores why we forget, how we remember and why our memories can sometimes prove deceptive.
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• Part I - Believing the Body Part II - Propping the Subject Part III - What Memory Forgets: Models of the Mind Part IV - What History Forgets: Memory and Time Part V - Memory Beyond the Modern.
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A focus on memory has come to prominence across a wide range of disciplines. History, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of their interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imagination. At the same time, memory has emerged as a central theme and preoccupation in popular literature, film and television, and the emergence of memory as an academic theme cannot be separated from its prominence in the wider culture. This volume represents, explores and interrogates the current developments, engaging directly with the place of memory in culture, and with memory's meaning's and history.
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This volume represents, explores and interrogates the current developments in the study of memory, engaging directly with the place of memory in culture, and with memory's meanings and history.
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