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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458703503321

Titolo

Forgetting / / edited by Sergio Della Sala

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-97087-8

1-282-62957-3

9786612629570

0-203-85164-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Current issues in memory

Altri autori (Persone)

Della SalaSergio

Disciplina

153.1/25

Soggetti

Memory

Autobiographical memory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Forgetting: Preliminary considerations; 2 Forgetting: A historical perspective; 3 A new taxonomy of memory and forgetting; 4 Forgetting in memory models: Arguments against trace decay and consolidation failure; 5 Connectionist models of forgetting; 6 Synaptic plasticity and the neurobiology of memory and forgetting; 7 The functional neuroimaging of forgetting; 8 Sleep and forgetting; 9 Forgetting due to retroactive interference in amnesia: Findings and implications; 10 Accelerated long-term forgetting

11 Aspects of forgetting in psychogenic amnesia12 Autobiographical forgetting, social forgetting, and situated forgetting: Forgetting in context; 13 The role of retroactive interference and consolidation in everyday forgetting; Author index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory. This volume addresses various aspects of forgetting, drawing from several disciplines, including experimental



and cognitive psychology, cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging, clinical neurology, and computational modeling. The first chapters of the book d