Memory: Systems, Process, or Function? (Debates in Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198524072 ISBN 13: 9780198524076

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

A fascinating and illuminating debate on the cognitive architecture of long term memory. Is memory best regarded as comprising multiple independent systems, as a processing framework, tapped via different levels of processing, or as a complex function which can be used in a flexible task-appropriate manner? Also, how do researchers and theoreticians explain why certain individuals have better memories for some types of information such as names, faces, auditory, and visual information, than other individuals?
In Memory: Systems, Process, or Function? international researchers and theorists present stimulating, self-contained, and balanced summaries of the various theoretical and empirical positions that shape the most controversial and contested areas of psychology research today. Students and researchers alike in cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroanatomy will find this volume in The Oxford Debates in Psychology series and interesting and informative work. The book concludes with an integrated synopsis and appraisal of the different facets of this fascinating debate.

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About the Author

Jonathan K. Foster, Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL email: foster@psy.man.ac.uk Marko Jelicic, Lamarckhof 5-2, 1098 TJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Review

"Such reading should be of interest to many graduate students as well as active scientists." European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198524072
• ISBN 13: 9780198524076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Foster Jonathan K., Jelicic Marko