Screen LibraryHandbook of episodic memory /
Episodic memory is the name of the kind of memory that records personal experiences instead of the mere remembering of impersonal facts and rules. This type of memory is extremely sensitive to ageing and disease so an understanding of the mechanisms of episodic memory might lead to the development o...
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Elsevier Science,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Handbook of behavioral neuroscience ;
v. 18 |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15697339/18 |
| Summary: |
Episodic memory is the name of the kind of memory that records personal experiences instead of the mere remembering of impersonal facts and rules. This type of memory is extremely sensitive to ageing and disease so an understanding of the mechanisms of episodic memory might lead to the development of therapies suited to improve memory in some patient populations. Episodic memory is unique in that it includes an aspect of self-awareness and helps us to remember who we are in terms of what we did and what we have been passed through and what we should do in the future. This book brings together a renowned team of contributors from the fields of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and behavioural and molecular neuroscience. It provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of recent developments in understanding human episodic memory and animal episodic-like memory in terms of concepts, methods, mechanisms, neurobiology and pathology. The work presented within this book will have a profound effect on the direction that future research in this topic will take. - The first and most current comprehensive handbook on what we know about episodic memory, the memory of events, time, place, and emotion, and a key feature of awareness and consciousness- Articles summarize our understanding of the mechanisms of episodic memory as well as surveying the neurobiology of epsidodic memory in patients, animal studies and functional imaging work. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 615 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780444531742 0444531742 9780080932361 0080932363 |
| Index Number: | BF371 |
| CLC: | B842.3 |
| Contents: |
Perspectives on episodic and semantic memory retrieval / Exploring episodic memory / Episodic memory and mental time travel / Episodic memory : reconsolidation / Attributes of episodic memory processing / Cognitive and neural bases of flashbulb memories / From the past into the future : the development origins and trajectory of episodic future thinking / Emotion and episodic memory / Current status of cognitive time travel research in animals / Animal episodic memory / New working definition of episodic memory : replacing "when" and "which" / Episodic-like memory in food-hoarding birds / Representing past and future events / Functional neuroanatomy of remote, episodic memory / Medial temporal lobe : visual perception and recognition memory / Toward a neurobiology of episodic memory / Spatio-temporal context and object recognition memory in rodents / Role of the prefrontal cortex in episodic memory / Basal forebrain and episodic memory / Role of the precuneus in episodic memory / Multiple roles of dopaminergic neurotransmission in episodic memory / Neural coding of episodic memory / Primate hippocampus and episodic memory / Hippocampal neuronal activity and episodic memory / Hippocampus, context processing and episodic memory / Memory and perceptual impairments in amnesia and dementia / Using hippocampal amnesia to understand the neural basis of diencephalic amnesia / Structure-function correlates of episodic memory in aging / Memory and cognitive performance in preclinical Alzheimer's disease and preclinical vascular disease / Transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and episodic-like memory / Episodic memory in the context of cognitive control dysfunction : the case of Huntington's disease / Adrenal steroids and episodic memory : relevance to mood disorders / |