Foundations of human memory / Michael Jacob Kahana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahana, Michael J.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Foundations of Human Memory provides an introduction to the scientific study of human memory with an emphasis on both the major theories of memory and the laboratory studies that have been used to test those theories and inspire their further development.

Written with the undergraduate student in mind, this text assumes no specific background in the subject, but a general familiarity with scientific method and quantitative approaches to the treatment of data. The book is organized around the major empirical paradigms used to study memory in the laboratory and the theories used to explain data obtained using those paradigms. The text begins with a focus on memory for individual items, building up to memory for associations between items, and finally to memory for tsequences of items and the problem of memory search. Several major theories of memory are considered in detail; including strength theory, summed-similarity theory, neural network based theories, retrieved-context theory, and theories based on the division of memory into separate short-term and long-term storage systems. Emphasizing basic research, but tying in real-world examples and neuroscientific evidence, Foundations of Human Memory gives students and scholars a roadmap for placing current discoveries into a broader scientific context. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 3

1.1 Historical Background 4

1.2 Association, Context, and Episodic Memory 10

1.3 Methods Used in Studying Memory 14

1.4 The Laws of Repetition and Recency 19

1.5 Cognitivism 25

1.6 Organization of the Book 32

2 Item Recognition 34

2.1 Strength Theory 35

2.2 Multiple Sources of Strength? 48

2.3 Major Findings Concerning Item Recognition 57

2.4 Sternberg's Procedure 65

2.5 Summary and Current Directions 74

3 Attribute Models 80

3.1 Attributes 81

3.2 A Multitrace Distributed Memory Model 85

3.3 Similarity Effects 94

3.4 The Diffusion Model of Response Time 96

3.5 Context Revisited 98

3.6 Summary and Current Directions 102

3.7 *List-strength Effect 103

3.8 *A Unitrace Attribute Model 105

4 Associations and Cued Recall 111

4.1 Major Associative Tasks 112

4.2 Encoding and Repetition 115

4.3 Recency and List Length 122

4.4 Retrieval Errors 124

4.5 Retroactive Interference and Recovery 126

4.6 Proactive Interference 131

4.7 Context and Interference Theory 132

4.8 Similarity and Interference 133

4.9 Unlearning as Inhibition 136

4.10 Interference Theory: Concluding Remarks 141

4.11 Item and Associative Information 143

4.12 Summary and Current Directions 147

5 Models of Association 151

5.1 The Attribute-similarity Framework 152

5.2 Neural-network Models 161

5.3 Summary and Current Directions 174

5.4 *More on Linear Associators 178

5.5 *Project: Cued Recall in a Hopfield Network 181

6 Free Recall and Memory Search 185

6.1 Serial-position Effects 186

6.2 Retrieval Dynamics 196

6.3 Semantic Clustering 204

6.4 Intrusions 212

6.5 Repetition Effects 214

6.6 Summary and Current Directions 218

7 Models of Free Recall 223

7.1 Dual-store Memory Search Models 223

7.2 Testing Dual-store Models 233

7.3 Problems for Dual-store Models 239

7.4 Single-store Retrieved-context Models 247

7.5 Testing Retrieved Context Theory 256

7.6 Summary and Current Directions 263

8 Sequence Memory 269

8.1 Serial Recall and Memory Span 270

8.2 Serial-position Effects 272

8.3 Modality and Suffix Effects: Evidence for a phonological STS? 275

8.4 Recall Errors 277

8.5 Associative Asymmetry 282

8.6 Grouping Effects 284

8.7 Summary and Current Directions 286

9 Theories of Sequence Memory 290

9.1 Associative Chaining 291

9.2 Positional Coding 294

9.3 Eight Critical Findings 296

9.4 Chaining vs. Positional Coding 305

9.5 Hierarchical Associative Theory 307

9.6 Summary and Current Directions 308.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Foundations of human memory.

ISBN:

0199715521

9780199715527

Publisher Number:

99949959366

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.