Memory: Systems, Process or Function? (Debates in Psychology) - Hardcover

Foster, Jonathan K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198524072 ISBN 13: 9780198524076

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Memory represents a key psychological process. It allows us to recall things from the past which may have taken place hours, days, months, or even many years ago. Our memories are intrinsically personal, subjective, and internal, yet without the primary capacity of memory, other important activities such as speech, perception, concept formation, and reasoning would be impossible. The range of different aspects of memory is huge, from our vocabulary and knowledge about language and the world to our personal histories, skills such as walking and talking, and the more simple memory capacities found in lower animals. Amongst the diversity of memory processes, the principal focus in this volume is the long-term representation of complex associative human memory. This refers to the permanently stored representation of individual items and events. The books in the "Oxford Debates in Psychology" series aim to provide students and researchers with a stimulating, self-contained, and balanced summary of the various theoretical and empirical positions that shape the most controversial and contested areas of research. This book is intended for supplementary reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in cognitive neuropsychology; researchers in neuropsychology or neuroanatomy generally, and in memory in particular.

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Review

Such reading should be of interest to many graduate students as well as active scientists. (European Journal of Cognitive Psychology)

From the Author

An informed commentary on human memory by top researchers
This book offers an informed commentary on human memory, its processes and functions from some of the leading memory researchers in the world.

Individual chapter authors seek to address questions concerning the functions of human memory, its organization, structure and function.

This book will be of interest to anyone who has wondered about how their mind and brain function in creating, storing and retrieving 'memories'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198524072
• ISBN 13: 9780198524076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304