Episodic Memory
Published on 1. April 2002
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-850879-3 (ISBN)
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The term "episodic memory" refers to our memory for unique, personal experiences, that we can date at some point in our past - our first day at school, the day we got married. It has again become a topic of great importance and interest to psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. How are such memories stored in the brain, why do certain memories disappear (especially those from early in childhood), what causes false memories (memories of events we erroneously believe have really taken place)? Since Endel Tulving's book "Episodic Memory" few books have been published on this topic. However, many of the assumptions made about episodic memory have had to be reconsidered as a result of subsequent techniques, which have allowed us a deeper understanding of episodic memory. In this work, three researchers in the topic of memory have brought together a team of contributors from the fields of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroscience, to present an account of what we know about about this fundamentally important topic.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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978-0-19-850879-3 (9780198508793)
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PrefaceAlan Baddeley, John Aggleton, Martin Conway: Preface. 1: Alan Baddeley: The concept of episodic memory. 2: John M. Gardiner: Episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness: a first-person approach. 3: Andrew P. Yonelinas: Components of episodic memory: the contribution of recollection and familiarity. 4: Martin A. Conway: Sensory-perceptual episodic memory and its context: autobiographical memory. 5: Daniel L. Schacter and Chad S. Dodson: Misattribution, false recognition, and the sins of memory. 6: Andrew R. Mayes and Neil Roberts: Theories of episodic memory. 7: Michael D. Kopelman and Narinder Kapur: The loss of episodic memories in retrograde amnesia: single-case and group studies. 8: John R. Hodges and Kim S. Graham: Episodic memory: insights from semantic dementia. 9: Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, David G. Gadian, Mortimer Mishkin: Dissociations in cognitive memory: the syndrome of developmental amnesia. 10: Eleanor A. Maguire: Neuroimaging studies of autobiographical event memory. 11: Richard G. M. Morris: Episodic-like memory in animals: psychological criteria, neural mechanisms and the value of episodic-like tasks to investigate animal models of neurodegenerative disease. 12: John P. Aggleton and John M. Pearce: Neural systems underlying episodic memory: insights from animal research. 13: N. S. Clayton, D. P. Griffiths, N. J. Emery, A. Dickenson: Elements of episodic-like memory in animals. 14: Neil Burgess, Suzanna Becker, John A. King, John O'Keefe: Memory for events and their spatial context: models and experiments. 15: Endel Tulving: Episodic memory and common sense: how far apart?