Memory and the Human Lifespan

Embark on a startling voyage into the human mind to discover how the various aspects of your memory operate. An award-winning professor explains the different systems that make memory possible and how these systems work together.

Syllabus

01: Memory Is a Party
02: The Ancient “Art of Memory”
03: Rote Memorization and a Science of Forgetting
04: Sensory Memory-Brief Traces of the Past
05: The Conveyor Belt of Working Memory
06: Encoding-Our Gateway into Long-Term Memory
07: Episodic and Semantic Long-Term Memory
08: The Secret Passage-Implicit Memory
09: From Procedural Memory to Habit
10: When Memory Systems Battle-Habits vs. Goals
11: Sleep and the Consolidation of Memories
12: Infant and Early Childhood Memory
13: Animal Cognition and Memory
14: Mapping Memory in the Brain
15: Neural Network Models
16: Learning from Brain Damage and Amnesias
17: The Many Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease
18: That Powerful Glow of Warm Familiarity
19: Deja Vu and the Illusion of Memory
20: Recovered Memories or False Memories?
21: Mind the Gaps! Memory as Reconstruction
22: How We Choose What's Important to Remember
23: Aging, Memory, and Cognitive Transition
24: The Monster at the End of the Book
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Taught by

Steve Joordens

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