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.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Expert
- 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
Taught by
Steve Joordens
