Memory and brain / Larry R. Squire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Squire, Larry R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Physiological aspects.

Memory.

Brain.

Physical Description:

xii, 315 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by a leading neuropsychologist, this book brings together widely scattered psychological and neurobiological research on memory to create a definitive overview of current knowledge, proceeding from the synapse to a review of the function and structure of neural systems and the organization of cognition.

Contents:

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

Glossary

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References

Name Index

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Subject Index

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-34665-9

0-19-802121-6

OCLC:

476010036