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Human memory : structures and images / Mary B. Howes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howes, Mary B., 1942-2013.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Research.
- Memory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 453 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks : SAGE, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Human Memory: Structures and Images offers students a comprehensive overview of research in human memory. Providing a theoretical background for the research, author Mary B. Howes uses a clear and accessible format to cover three major areas-mainstream experimental research; naturalistic research; and work in the domains of the amnesias, malfunctions of memory, and neuroscience.
- Contents:
- Memory : historical and current perspectives
- Mainstream foundations : the associative model of memory
- Sensory memory
- Verbal short-term memory
- Working memory
- Encoding and retrieval in long-term memory
- Long-term memory : ongoing research
- The constructivism model of memory
- Memory change : alterations in the components of a memory
- Long-term memory : higher order structures
- Autobiographical memory.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781483329222
- 1483329224
- 9781452245072
- 145224507X
- OCLC:
- 872672389
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