From Conditioning to Conscious Recollection: Memory Systems of the Brain: 35 - Brossura

Eichenbaum, Howard

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ISBN 10: 0195178041 ISBN 13: 9780195178043

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2004

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione

The book succeeds brilliantly as a description of the idea of multiple memory systems in the brain and places this view in a rich historical context. Experiments to support the view are discussed thoroughly, with myriad graphs and diagrams to clarify exposition. (The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology)

Psychologists Eichenbaum and Cohen explore the notion that memory is implemented in the brain by multiple systems operating in parallel, each with distinct operating characteristics and mediated by separate brain pathways. They consider the history and implications of the theory, the evidence that supports it, and the nature of the systems discovered so far. The theory has been developed through recent studies in cognitive neuroscience. (SciTech Book News)

[A] comprehensive, data-rich treatment... The strength, and the usefulness, of the book lie in the enormous amount of data that is presented... This volume is a welcome summary of what has been accomplished to date and a compelling account of how the function of the hippocampus and related structures can be understood in terms of spatial and non-spatial relational memory. (Nature Neuroscience)

Contenuti

• 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?

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195178041
• ISBN 13: 9780195178043
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 600
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia