Thinking about human memory

Title: Thinking about human memory
Creator: Humphreys, Michael S.; Chalmers, Kerry A.
Relation: http://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/psychology/cognition/thinking-about-human-memory?format=HB&isbn=9781107087149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource Type: book
Date: 2016
Description: Thinking about human memory provides a novel analytical approach to understanding memory that considers the goals of the memory task, the cues and information available, the opportunity to learn, and interference from irrelevant information (noise). Each of the five chapters describing this approach introduces historical ideas and demonstrates how current thinking both differs from and is derived from them. These chapters also contain analyses of current problems designed to demonstrate the power of the approach. In a subsequent chapter, the authors discuss how memory is controlled by the environment, by others, and by ourselves, and then apply their insights to the problem solving of children, our hominin ancestors, and scrub jays. Finally, the questions of how to define episodic memory and how to investigate phylogenetic and developmental changes in memory are addressed.
Subject: memory; learning; control
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1323399
Identifier: uon:24800
Identifier: ISBN:9781316531259
Language: eng