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

Edited By Jonathan K. Foster and Marko Jelicic

ISBN 10: 0198524064 / ISBN 13: 9780198524069

Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory: Systems, Process, or Function? (Debates in Psychology)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198524064
• ISBN 13: 9780198524069
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published
• Weight: 19 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • PSYCHOLOGY

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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.

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