Written by three of the world’s leading researchers in the field, it contains everything the student needs to know about the scientific approach to memory and its applications.

Prospective memory is the memory for tasks to be completed in the future (e.g., sending an email, paying a bill, taking medication). Prospective memory requires working memory because the …

Memory is the ability to learn, store, and retrieve information. New or increasing problems with any or all of these 3 stages of memory often occur after a traumatic brain injury, stroke, brain tumor, multiple …

This book identifies the brain regions associated with different types of memory and details how activity in these regions changes over time. After the current evidence on the cognitive neuroscience of …

Memory is the glue that holds our mental life together. Without its unifying power, both our conscious and unconscious life would be broken into as many fragments as there are seconds in the day. Our …

Neuroscience has reached the stage where it is possible to understand how parts of the brain actually work, by combining approaches from many disciplines.

Before one asks how the brain stores a sensory experi­ ence as a memory, one would like to know how the brain processes sensory information to begin with. A study of the neural pathway responsible for …