'Dudai's Memory from A-Z reflects a depth of knowledge and wisdom surpassed only by his irrepressible humour. Never has learning the alphabet been so much fun.'
Richard Morris, Department of Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh
Memory from A to Z
Keywords, Concepts, and Beyond
Yadin Dudai
Price: £27.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852087-0
Publication date: 22 April 2004
344 pages, 65 halftones & line illus., 240x168 mm
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| - 'Overall, this book is informative, interesting and witty. It is a scholarly work, including delightful illustrations or early researchers and their work. It would provide a valuable addition to the library or bookshelves of students or lecturers.' - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18
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| Description | | - A low priced paperback edition of this highly successful and critically acclaimed work - accessible and affordable for undergraduate psychology/neuroscience students
- An innovative, readable, and engaging companion to the language of memory research
- An aide-memoire for those already in the field and a useful reference for those researching memory for the first time
- Written with authority as well as a light touch - it will educate, enthuse, and entertain
- Yadin Dudai is a world class neuroscientist, and a leading authority on the topic of memory
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Now available as a low priced paperback, this is an innovative, readable and engaging companion to the language of memory research. It consists of over 130 entries, bound within a coherent conceptual framework. Each entry starts with a definition, or a set of definitions, followed by in-depth and provocative discussion of the origin, meaning, usage and applicability of ideas and problems
central to the neuroscience of memory and scientific culture at large. The entries, linked by webs of associations, can be read and enjoyed, and provide a versatile tool kit; a source for definitions, information and further reading; a trigger for contemplation, discussion and experimentation; and an aid to study, teaching and debate in classes and seminars. The text is supported by an extensive
reference listing, and there is a comprehensive subject index, incorporating a much wider range of terms relevant to the field.
Memory from A to Z
provides a unique, highly valuable introduction to the field of memory for students and researchers approaching the subject for the first time, while at the same time serving and stimulating the more experienced.
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Readership: Students and researchers in neuroscience, cognitive sciences, psychology, neuropsychology and philosophy.
| Contents |
The conceptual framework
A priori
Acetylcholine
Acquisition
Algorithm
Amnesia
Amygdala
Anthropomorphism
Aplysia
Artefact
Assay
Associative learning
Attention
Behaviourism
Bias
Binding
Birdsong
Calcium
Capacity
Cell assembly
Cerebellum
Cerebral cortex
Classic
Classical conditioning
Clever Hans
Coincidence detector
Collective memory
Conditioned taste aversion
Confabulation
Conscious awareness
Consolidation
Context
Controls
CREB
Criterion
Cue
Culture
Declarative memory
Delay task
Dementia
Development
Dimension
Dopamine
Drosophila melanogaster
Engram
Enigma
Episodic memory
Experimental extinction
False memory
Fear conditioning
Flashbulb memory
Forgetting
Functional neuroimaging
Generalization
Glutamate
Habit
Habituation
Hippocampus
Homeostasis
Homo sapiens sapiens
Homunculus
Honeybee
Immediate early genes
Imprinting
Infantile amnesia
Insight
Instrumental conditioning
Internal representation
Intracellular signal-transduction cascade
Ion channel
Late response genes
Learning
Learning set
Level
Limbic system
Long-term potentiation
Lotus
Map
Maze
Memory
Metamemory
Metaphor
Metaplasticity
Method
Mnemonics
Model
Monkey
Mouse
Neurogenetics
Neurotransmitter
Nootropics
Noradrenaline
Nutrients
Observational learning
Ockham's razor
Palimpsest
Paradigm
Percept
Performance
Persistence
Phase
Phrenology
Planning
Plasticity
Priming
Prospective memory
Protein kinase
Protein synthesis
Rat
Real-life memory
Recall
Receptor
Recognition
Red herring
Reduction
Reinforcer
Retrieval
Scoopophobia
Sensitization
Simple system
Skill
Spaced training
State-dependent learning
Stimulus
Subject
Surprise
Synapse
System
Taxonomy
Transfer
Working memory
Zeitgeist
References
Subject index
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| Authors, editors,
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Yadin Dudai, Professor of Neurobiology, Institute of Brain Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
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