From conditioning to conscious recollection : memory systems of the brain / Howard Eichenbaum, Neal J. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eichenbaum, Howard.

Contributor:

Cohen, Neal J.

Series:

Oxford psychology series ; no. 35.

Oxford psychology series ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Brain--Psychology.

Brain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (594 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work offers an account of the evolution of multiple memory systems of the brain. It relates the neurobiological properties of dedicated and elaborate systems to their neuropsychological counterparts and accounts for the phenomenology of memory.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 How Is Memory Organized in the Brain?; 2 Multiple Memory Systems: A Historical Perspective; Part I. Fundamentals; 3 Cellular Plasticity Mechanisms; 4 The Cerebral Cortex and Memory; Part II. The Brain System That Mediates Declarative Memory; 5 Hippocampal Function in Humans: Insights from Amnesia and Functional Brain Imaging; 6 Animal Models of Amnesia: The Nonhuman Primate; 7 Animal Models of Amnesia: Nonprimates; 8 The Representation of Experience in Hippocampal Neuronal Activity; 9 The Hippocampal Memory System; 10 Memory Consolidation

Part III. Specialized Memory Systems of the Brain11 Dissociating Multiple Memory Systems in the Brain; 12 Emotional Memory and Memory Modulation; 13 Habits, Skills, and Procedural Memory; 14 Working Memory and the Prefrontal Cortex; 15 Multiple Memory Systems in the Brain: Where Do We Stand?; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Originally published: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-029232-6

1-4356-3374-1

1-280-84512-0

0-19-802470-3

0-19-508590-6

9786610845125

OCLC:

319064511