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Subject(s)

• Memory [Browse]
• Cognitive neuroscience [Browse]

Author

• Wise, Steven P. [Browse]
• Graham, Kim [Browse]

Summary note

This work sets out a bold and exciting new theory about memory. It proposes that several memory systems arose during evolution and that they did so for the same general reason - to transcend problems and exploit opportunities encountered by specific ancestors at particular times and places in the distant past.

Notes

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2016).

Contents

• Part I. Foundations of memory systems. 1. The history of memory systems ; 2. The history of the brain
• Part II. Architecture of vertebrate memory. 3. The reinforcement memory systems of early animals ; 4. The navigation memory system of early vertebrates ; 5. The biased-competition memory system of early mammals
• Part III. Primate augmentations. 6. The manual-foraging memory system of early primates ; 7. The feature memory system of anthropoids ; 8. The goal memory system of anthropoids
• Part IV. Hominin adaptations. 9. The goal and feature memory systems of hominins ; 10. The social-subjective memory system of hominins ; 11. The origin of explicit memory in hominins
• Part V. Deconstructing and reconstructing memory systems. 12. Deconstructing amnesia ; 13. Reconstructing memory's past.

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ISBN

• 0-19-150996-5
• 0-19-176631-3

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