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List of contents
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- Epigraph
- Part I. Foundations of memory systems
- 1: The history of memory systems
- 2: The history of the brain
- Part II. Architecture of vertebrate memory
- 3: The reinforcement memory systems of early animals
- 4: The navigation memory system of early vertebrates
- 5: The biased-competition memory system of early mammals
- Part III. Primate augmentations
- 6: The manual-foraging memory system of early primates
- 7: The feature memory system of anthropoids
- 8: The goal memory system of anthropoids
- Part IV. Hominin adaptations
- 9: The goal and feature memory systems of hominins
- 10: The social-subjective memory system of hominins
- 11: The origin of explicit memory in hominins
- Part V. Deconstructing and reconstructing memory systems
- 12: Deconstructing amnesia
- 13: Reconstructing memory's past
- Epilogue
- Index
Summary
Now available in paperback, The Evolution of Memory Systems sets out a bold and exciting new thoery about memory. It proposes that several memory systems arose during evolution and that they did so for the same general reason: to transcend problems and exploit opportunitites encountered by specific ancestors at particular times and places in the distant past.
Foreword
Winner of the 2019 British Psychological Society Book Award - Academic Monograph
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This is an important book for several reasons. First, there is the unique way that the authors formulate their proposals within an evolutionary context, explaining what makes memory special in mammals, in primates, and in humans. Second, their survey of the cognitive neuroscience of memory is guided by an exciting and provocative new taxonomy of memory systems that takes the reader far beyond the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe.
