Aspects of Learning and Memory

Derek Richter

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781483167770
• eBook ISBN: 9781483195254
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Aspects of Learning and Memory provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of learning and memory. This book discusses the various problems of memory. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of the different kinds of learning. This text then discusses the concept of memory, which is extended to include the capacity to retain learned skills, such as reading, wring, or driving a car. Other chapters consider the mechanism by which humans recall the past is frequently a process of matching a present image with a past image. This book discusses as well the physiological mechanisms associated with learning and memory, which involve the establishment of neuronal patterns that can be reactivated at a later date when remembrance occurs. The final chapter deals with complexity of changes involved in learning. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists, clinical neurologists, pathologists, and scientists working in different fields of research.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Aspects of Learning and Memory
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Meaning of the Words 'Learning' and 'Memory'
• Chapter 2. Problems of Memory in Man
• Chapter 3. Contribution from Clinical Neurology
• Chapter 4. Some Aspects of the Disorders of Memory due to Brain Damage
• Chapter 5. The Neurological Basis of Learning
• Chapter 6. Biochemical Aspects of Memory
• Chapter 7. Electrical Signals in the Brain and the Cellular Mechanism of Learning
• Chapter 8. Animal Learning and Memory
• Author Index
• Index