Donna Rose Addis — Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

Автор: Donna Rose Addis
Название книги: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Психология
Страницы: 481
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

«The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory» presents a comprehensive overview of the latest, cutting-edge neuroscience research being done relating to the study of human memory and cognition.

Features the analysis of original data using cutting edge methods in cognitive neuroscience research Presents a conceptually accessible discussion of human memory research Includes contributions from authors that represent a «who's who» of human memory neuroscientists from the U.S. and abroad Supplemented with a variety of excellent and accessible diagrams to enhance comprehension
Experimental psychologists have been working to understand the cognitive processes
that contribute to human memory for more than 100 years. Their research has yielded
many important models and hypotheses regarding the cognitive and neural mechanisms
that underlie short‐ and long‐term memory. Neuroscience methods have
advanced our understanding of human memory considerably, but many of these
methods, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), are relatively new
and have been somewhat limited in their ability to resolve many of the controversies
and mysteries of human memory functioning. Over the last several years, however, tremendous
advances have been made in both the methods themselves and the analysis
techniques used to examine the data. For example, due to the increased prevalence of
higher field scanners and robust imaging sequences, the spatial resolution of neuroimaging
methods has improved dramatically. This advancement has been instrumental in
allowing cognitive neuroscientists, including contributors to this handbook, to distinguish
the roles of human hippocampal subfields in episodic memory encoding and
retrieval. Furthermore, highly sensitive multivariate statistical methods are being
applied with increasing frequency, such that it is now possible to determine the extent
to which a retrieved memory representation recapitulates that associated with initial
encoding. Contributors to this volume use these and other cutting‐edge approaches to
address a wide variety of topics in the field of human memory, including the effects of
healthy aging and dementia on episodic and semantic memory and their underlying
neural substrates, the nature of the visual representations maintained in working
memory and perception, the potential of therapeutic interventions for memory disorders,
among many others.
Given the recent technological developments in neuroscience methods and the
number of publications applying these methods, we felt that the timing was apt for
this handbook. Although other excellent books on the topic of memory have been
published over the last few years, this volume is unique in that it is focused on the
recent neuroscience studies that have advanced our understanding of human memory.
This book both summarizes this literature and makes predictions about the future
studies that will advance our understanding further.
The contributors to this handbook represent many of the best cognitive neuroscientists
working in the domain of human memory. We have endeavored to include a
wide range of research areas and approaches in this volume. Each author has provided
an excellent review of the work being done in his or her own research area. The chapters
are comprehensive enough that graduate students with some experience with the
relevant literature can understand them; but also thought‐provoking enough that
experienced human memory researchers will find them interesting. We imagine that
this book might also be useful for professors planning graduate seminars on topics of
human memory.
We would like to extend our thanks to the authors who graciously accepted our
invitation to contribute to this volume, and to the expert reviewers who provided
invaluable feedback that helped perfect it. Needless to say, this handbook would not
have been possible without their collective efforts.