Memory and Brain
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 1987
330 pages
978-0-19-802121-6 (ISBN)
Description
Written by a leading neuropsychologist, this book brings together the widely scattered psychological and neurobiological work on memory to create a definitive overview of current knowledge. Reflecting the many levels of analysis at which this work is taking place, the book proceeds from the synapse to a review of the function and structure of neural systems and the organization of cognition. Throughout, the author places current research in historical perspective, and identifies major ideas and themes that have emerged in recent years in order to provide a solid foundation for future investigations. The book is amply illustrated and contains a useful glossary. It will be of use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on memory, and to psychologists and neuroscientists desiring an account of memory that is informed equally by cognitive and neurobiological insights.
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Larry R. Squire
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Definitions: From Synapses to Behavior
- 2. Memory as Synaptic Change
- Connections versus Molecular Codes
- Neurons versus Synapses
- The Nature of the Synaptic Change
- 3. Memory and the Developing Nervous System
- Competition
- Remembering and Forgetting
- 4. Modulation of Memory
- Modulatory Systems
- Norepinephrine and Memory
- Acetylcholine
- Hormones
- Modulation of Memory: One or Many Effects?
- 5. Localized and Distributed Memory Storage
- History of the Problem
- The Nonlocalizing Brain Lesion
- Nonlocalizing Signs from Neurophysiology
- Memory as a Hologram
- Distributed Models of Memory in Cognitive Psychology
- Localizationist and Distributed Accounts of Memory Reconciled
- Searching for Functionally Equivalent Neural Units
- 6. The Penfield Studies
- The Observations
- Interpretation of the Penfield Studies
- Recent Findings
- 7. Searching for Engrams: Simple Learning
- Habituation: The Acoustic Startle Reflex
- Habituation: The Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
- Classical Conditioning
- Heart-rate Conditioning
- Conditioning of the Nictitating Membrane/Eyeblink Response
- Imprinting
- 8. Searching for Engrams: Complex Learning
- Brightness Discrimination
- Arguments for Cortical Memory Storage
- Split-brain Studies
- Plasticity of Cortical Neurons
- Inferotemporal Cortex: Visual Processing and Visual Memory Storage
- Where Is Memory Stored?
- 9. Memory Is Determined by Information Processing
- The Link between Processing and Storage: Which Cells Are Plastic?
- The Link between Processing and Storage: Considerations from Cognitive Science
- Extraordinary Processing and Extraordinary Memory
- 10. Short-term and Long-term Memory Processes
- Primary Memory
- Working Memory
- Multiple Working Memories
- The Neuropsychological Perspective
- The Neurobiological Perspective
- Neuropsychology and Neurobiology Reconciled
- 11. Divisions of Long-term Memory
- Declarative and Procedural Memory
- Episodic and Semantic Memory
- 12. A Neural System with Memory Functions
- Case N.A.
- Amnesia: Damage to a Specialized Neural System
- Diencephalic Amnesia
- Medial Temporal Amnesia
- From Brain Lesions to Neural Systems
- Aging and Memory
- 13. Amnesia and the Functional Organization of Memory
- The Formation and Consolidation of Long-term Memory
- The Contribution of the Diencephalon
- The Contribution of Damage in Other Neural Systems
- The Selective Role of the Neural System Damaged in Amnesia
- 14. Prefrontal Cortex
- The Sulcus Principalis and Dorsolateral Convexity
- The Inferior Convexity
- The Peri-arcuate Region
- Clinical Neuropsychological Studies of Frontal Lesions
- The Prefrontal Cortex and Memory Functions
- Specific Events versus Cumulative Experience
- 15. Memory and Brain: A Beginning
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