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- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page 1
- Copyright Page 1
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 The Present and the Past
- Memory and Consciousness
- Experimental Method in the Study of Human Memory
- Primary and Secondary Memory Revisited
- Testing HM’s Primary Memory
- The Importance of Neuropsychology
- The ‘Multistore’ Model of Memory
- Encoding Differences
- The Serial Position Curve
- The Serial Position Curve and Rehearsal
- Negative Recency
- Problems with Interpreting the Serial Position Curve
- Significance of the Constant Ratio Rule
- Current Status of the STS/LTS Dichotomy
- STS and LTS from a Biological Perspective
- Overview
- 2 Structure or Process?
- Levels of Processing
- Problems with Levels of Processing
- Transfer-Appropriate Processing
- The Legacy of Levels of Processing
- Overview
- 3 The Permanent Store
- Knowing How versus Knowing That
- Episodic, Semantic, and Procedural Memory
- Experimental Evidence for Procedural Memory
- Experimental Evidence for Episodic and Semantic Memory
- The Case of PZ
- Ryle Revisited: The Declarative-Procedural Distinction
- Explicit and Implicit Memory
- Implicit Memory and the Learning of New Information
- Implicit Learning versus Implicit Memory
- What is Implicit Memory?
- Systems versus Processes
- Overview
- 4 Remembering and Forgetting
- Is All Forgetting Failing to Remember?
- Storage versus Retrieval Failure
- Generation-Recognition Models
- The Encoding Specificity Principle
- The Tulving-Wiseman ‘law’
- Context
- The Complexity of Recognition
- Subjective Differences in Recognition Memory
- Overview of Retrieval
- Context Effects
- State-Dependent Memory
- Overview of State-Dependent Effects
- Hypnosis
- Repression
- Psychogenic Amnesia
- 5 Imagery
- The Rebirth of Mental Imagery as a Scientific Subject
- Imagery as an Experimental Variable
- The Dual Coding Hypothesis
- Exploring the Properties of the Mental Image
- A Computational Model of Imagery
- Arguments against Mental Imagery
- Neuropsychological Evidence for Mental Imagery
- Eidetic Imagery
- Overview
- 6 Working Memory
- The Working Memory Model
- The Articulatory Loop
- What is an Articulatory Loop For?
- The Articulatory Loop and Reading Development
- The Articulatory Loop and Fluent Reading
- Articulatory Suppression – A Cautionary Note
- Reading without an Articulatory Loop
- Visuo-spatial scratch pad
- The Central Executive
- The Dysexecutive Syndrome
- Neuropharmacological Evidence for Working Memory
- Overview
- 7 Growing Up
- Early Memory
- Memory Strategies and Development
- More Complex Strategies
- Metamemory
- Memory Strategies and Metamemory: An Overview
- Implicit Memory in Children
- What is Implicit Memory For?
- What is Memory Development the Development Of?
- Infantile Amnesia
- Overview
- 8 Getting Old
- Methodological Issues in Research on Ageing
- Experimental Findings
- Metamemory
- Implicit Memory and Ageing
- Ageing and Memory: A Summary
- Explaining Age-Related Memory Deficits
- Ageing, Memory, and Frontal Lobe Dysfunction
- Memory Loss, Ageing, and Mental Activity
- Ageing and Memory: An Evolutionary Perspective
- Overview
- References
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Authors