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Beginning with the history of memory, the first section explores basic methodology and neuroscience. The second section examines the key topics of memory, such as sensory memories and mechanisms of forgetting, along with coverage of short-term, nondeclarative, episodic, and semantic memory processing. The third section focuses on specialized topics such as amnesia, memory for space and time, autobiographical memory, memory and reality, memory and the law, metamemory, and formal models of memory. Instructors could pick which of these chapters best fit the goals of their course.
New to this edition:
- Additional coverage of the replication crisis
- Increased focus on contemporary studies alongside classic cases
- More on diversity in memory research
- Coverage of the impact of AI on our understanding of memory
- Updated instructor and student resources, including PowerPoint slides and exam questions
The book highlights the application of memory theory and findings to everyday experience, presents in-depth explorations of studies, and provides opportunities for students to explore the assessment of memory in more laboratory-based settings.
Packed full of student-friendly pedagogy including study questions, Stop and Review and Try It Out sections, Study in Depth text boxes, and more, Human Memory, 5th Edition is an essential companion for all students of human memory.
List of contents
Part I Background 1 Overview and History of Memory Research
2 Neuroscience of Memory
3 Methods and Principles
Part II Core Memory Topics 4 Sensory and Short-Term Memory
5 Working Memory
6 Nondeclarative Memory
7 Episodic Memory: Past and Future
8 Forgetting
9 Semantic Memory
Part III Special Topics in Memory 10 Forms of Amnesia 327
11 Memory for Space and Time
12 Autobiographical Memory
13 Memory and Reality
14 Memory and the Law
15 Metamemory
16 Memory in Infancy and Childhood
17 Memory and Aging
18 Formal Models of Memory
APPENDIX A Memory Methods
APPENDIX B Brodmann Areas
About the author
Gabriel A. Radvansky received his BA from Cleveland State University under the supervision of Mark Ashcraft and Ben Wallace, and his MA and PhD from Michigan State University in 1992 under the supervision of Rose T. Zacks. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame since 1993. He is an expert in human memory with over 100 publications. He has served as associated editor for the journals Memory & Cognition, the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Collabra.
