Memory - 9781848720015

In 1993, Baddeley (psychology, U. of York, England) Your Memory: A User's Guide created a text on memory for the general public which, over the past 15 years, has been adopted as a student text in introductory memory courses. Designed with students in mind, but still suitable for general readers, this next text by Baddeley, Eysenck (psychology, Royal Holloway U., London), and Anderson (cognitive neuroscience, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) provides an updated and extended account of human memory, building on the 1993 publication. Coverage includes an overview of what memory is, short-term memory, working memory, learning, episodic memory, semantic memory and stored knowledge, autobiographical memory, retrieval, incidental forgetting, motivated forgetting, amnesia, memory in childhood, aging, eyewitness testimony, prospective memory, and improving one's memory. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)