Learning and Memory

The Psychology of Learning and Memory - The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory - Episodic and Semantic Memory: Memory for Facts and Events - Skill Memory: Learning by Doing - Working Memory and Executive Control - Non-Associative Learning: Learning about Repeated Events - Classical Conditioning: Learning to Predict Important Events - Instrumental Conditioning: Learning the Consequences of Behavior - Generalization, Discrimination, and the Representation of Similarity - Emotional Learning and Memory - Observational Learning - Learning and Memory Across the Lifespan - Language Learning: Communication and Cognition

MARK A. GLUCK is a Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University, Newark, USA, co-director of the Memory Disorders Project at Rutgers-Newark, and publisher of the project's public health newsletter, Memory Loss and the Brain. His research focuses on the neural bases of learning and memory, and the consequences of memory loss due to aging, trauma, and disease. He is co-author of Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (MIT Press, 2001). In 1996, he was awarded an NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Bill Clinton. That same year, he received the American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

EDUARDO MERCADO is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA. His research focuses on how different brain systems interact to develop representations of experienced events, and how these representations change over time. Dr. Mercado currently uses techniques from experimental psychology, computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, and behavioural neuroscience to explore questions about auditory learning and memory in rodents, cetaceans, and humans.

CATHERINE E. MYERS is a Research Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University, Newark, USA, working in experimental neuropsychology and computational neuroscience. She is co-director of the Memory Disorders Project at Rutgers-Newark as well as Editor-in-Chief of the project's public health newsletter, Memory Loss and the Brain. Her research focuses on human memory, specifically on memory impairments following damage to the hippocampus and associated brain structures. She is co-author of Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (MIT Press, 2001) and author of Delay Learning in Artificial Neural Networks (Chapman and

'This textbook presents an exciting, well-informed, and well-written discussion of brain mechanisms of learning and memory processes.'- John Byrnes, Ph.D. Tufts University of Medicine, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA 'The greatest strength of this text is the constant use of relatable real world examples. Many other texts talk mainly about rats and do not relate topics to everyday life. Another strength is the blending of basic learning with brain substrates and clinical applications. Few texts do this.' - M. Todd Allen, Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado, USA