| Autore |
Squire Larry R
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987
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| Descrizione fisica |
xii, 315 p. : ill
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| Disciplina |
153.1/2
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| Soggetto topico |
Memory - Physiological aspects
Brain
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| ISBN |
1-281-34665-9
0-19-802121-6
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Definitions: From Synapses to Behavior -- 2. Memory as Synaptic Change -- Connections versus Molecular Codes -- Neurons versus Synapses -- The Nature of the Synaptic Change -- 3. Memory and the Developing Nervous System -- Competition -- Remembering and Forgetting -- 4. Modulation of Memory -- Modulatory Systems -- Norepinephrine and Memory -- Acetylcholine -- Hormones -- Modulation of Memory: One or Many Effects? -- 5. Localized and Distributed Memory Storage -- History of the Problem -- The Nonlocalizing Brain Lesion -- Nonlocalizing Signs from Neurophysiology -- Memory as a Hologram -- Distributed Models of Memory in Cognitive Psychology -- Localizationist and Distributed Accounts of Memory Reconciled -- Searching for Functionally Equivalent Neural Units -- 6. The Penfield Studies -- The Observations -- Interpretation of the Penfield Studies -- Recent Findings -- 7. Searching for Engrams: Simple Learning -- Habituation: The Acoustic Startle Reflex -- Habituation: The Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex -- Classical Conditioning -- Heart-rate Conditioning -- Conditioning of the Nictitating Membrane/Eyeblink Response -- Imprinting -- 8. Searching for Engrams: Complex Learning -- Brightness Discrimination -- Arguments for Cortical Memory Storage -- Split-brain Studies -- Plasticity of Cortical Neurons -- Inferotemporal Cortex: Visual Processing and Visual Memory Storage -- Where Is Memory Stored? -- 9. Memory Is Determined by Information Processing -- The Link between Processing and Storage: Which Cells Are Plastic? -- The Link between Processing and Storage: Considerations from Cognitive Science -- Extraordinary Processing and Extraordinary Memory -- 10. Short-term and Long-term Memory Processes -- Primary Memory -- Working Memory -- Multiple Working Memories -- The Neuropsychological Perspective -- The Neurobiological Perspective.
Neuropsychology and Neurobiology Reconciled -- 11. Divisions of Long-term Memory -- Declarative and Procedural Memory -- Episodic and Semantic Memory -- 12. A Neural System with Memory Functions -- Case N.A. -- Amnesia: Damage to a Specialized Neural System -- Diencephalic Amnesia -- Medial Temporal Amnesia -- From Brain Lesions to Neural Systems -- Aging and Memory -- 13. Amnesia and the Functional Organization of Memory -- The Formation and Consolidation of Long-term Memory -- The Contribution of the Diencephalon -- The Contribution of Damage in Other Neural Systems -- The Selective Role of the Neural System Damaged in Amnesia -- 14. Prefrontal Cortex -- The Sulcus Principalis and Dorsolateral Convexity -- The Inferior Convexity -- The Peri-arcuate Region -- Clinical Neuropsychological Studies of Frontal Lesions -- The Prefrontal Cortex and Memory Functions -- Specific Events versus Cumulative Experience -- 15. Memory and Brain: A Beginning -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- References -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819469603321 |
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