Memory: Foundations and Applications

At last…a research-based text that engages students in learning about memory in a meaningful way

Designed to make memory research come to life through the use of examples that students can use in their everyday lives, this text provides an in-depth exploration into the science and the methodology of memory. Author Bennett Schwartz includes separate chapters on metamemory, biology of memory, and false memory – critical to a comprehensive understanding of memory science―to enhance the book′s accessible introduction to the field. Throughout the book, coverage of cognitive psychology and neuroscience is integrated to help students make the connection between cognitive theory and research and the places in the brain where memory processes occur.

Bennett L. Schwartz received his PhD in 1993 from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Since

then he has been at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, where he is currently professor

of psychology. He is author or editor of 10 published books as well as over 70 journal articles and

chapters. His textbook Memory: Foundations and Applications, fourth edition (SAGE), was published in

2020. He has won several teaching awards at FIU and currently teaches courses in memory, cognition,

and sensation and perception. His main research area is metacognition and memory, but he has also

conducted research in diverse areas that range from visual perception to evolutionary psychology, to

the language of thought, and to memory in nonhuman primates. Schwartz currently serves as the editor

in chief of New Ideas in Psychology.