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Memory and the Human Lifespan

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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
  • By This Expert

Taught by

Steve Joordens

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