Concise Learning and Memory

The Editor's Selection

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• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780123746276
• eBook ISBN: 9780080877860
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

The study of learning and memory is a central topic in neuroscience and psychology. Many of the basic research findings are directly applicable in the treatment of diseases and aging phenomena, and have found their way into educational theory and praxis.Concise Learning and Memory represents the best 30 chapters from Learning and Memory: A comprehensive reference (Academic Press March 2008), the most comprehensive source of information about learning and memory ever assembled, selected by one of the most respective scientists in the field, John H. Byrne. This concise version provides a truly authoritative collection of overview articles representing fundamental reviews of our knowledge of this central cognitive function of animal brains. It will be an affordable and accessible reference for scientists and students in all areas of neuroscience and psychology. There is no other single-volume reference with such authority and comprehensive coverage and depth currently available. - Represents an authoritative selection of the fundamental chapters from the most comprehensive source of information about learning and memory ever assembled, Learning and Memory - A comprehensive reference (Academic Press Mar 2008) - Representing outstanding scholarship, each chapter is written by a leader in the field and an expert in the topic area - All topics represent the most up to date research - Full color throughout, heavily illustrated - Priced to provide an affordable reference to individuals and workgroups

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Concise Learning and Memory: The Editor's Selection
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 A Typology of Memory Terms
• Chapter 2 Declarative Memory System: Amnesia
• Chapter 3 Multiple Memory Systems in the Brain: Cooperation and Competition
• Chapter 4 Implicit Memory and Priming
• Chapter 5 Semantic Memory
• Chapter 6 Structural Basis of Semantic Memory
• Chapter 7 Episodic Memory: An Evolving Concept
• Chapter 8 Working Memory
• Chapter 9 Prefrontal Cortex and Memory
• Chapter 10 Anatomy of the Hippocampus and the Declarative Memory System
• Chapter 11 Long-Term Potentiation: A Candidate Cellular Mechanism for Information Storage in the CNS
• Chapter 12 LTD – Synaptic Depression and Memory Storage
• Chapter 13 Activity-Dependent Structural Plasticity of Dendritic Spines
• Chapter 14 Plasticity of Intrinsic Excitability as a Mechanism for Memory Storage
• Chapter 15 Neural Computation Theories of Learning
• Chapter 16 Computational Models of Hippocampal Functions
• Chapter 17 Neurobiology of Procedural Learning in Animals
• Chapter 18 Sensitization and Habituation: Invertebrate
• Chapter 19 Cellular Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Aplysia
• Chapter 20 Procedural Learning: Classical Conditioning
• Chapter 21 Neural and Molecular Mechanisms of Fear Memory
• Chapter 22 Conditioned Taste Aversion and Taste Learning: Molecular Mechanisms
• Chapter 23 Theory of Reward Systems
• Chapter 24 The Molecular Mechanisms of Reward
• Chapter 25 Neurophysiology of Motor Skill Learning
• Chapter 26 The Role of Sleep in Memory Consolidation
• Chapter 27 Memory Modulation
• Chapter 28 Memory-Enhancing Drugs
• Chapter 29 Extinction: Behavioral Mechanisms and Their Implications
• Chapter 30 Reconsolidation: Historical Perspective and Theoretical Aspects
• Chapter 31 Retrieval from Memory
• Chapter 32 False Memories
• Chapter 33 Molecular Aspects of Memory Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
• Chapter 34 Developmental Disorders of Learning
• Chapter 35 Angelman Syndrome
• Chapter 36 Epigenetics – Chromatin Structure and Rett Syndrome
• Chapter 37 Neurogenesis
• Index