The idea that memory is not a single mental faculty has a long and interesting history but
became a topic of experimental and biologic inquiry only in the mid-20th century. It is now …

Considers the role of the hippocampus in memory function. A central thesis is that work with
rats, monkeys, and humans (which has sometimes seemed to proceed independently in 3 …

Anderson offers systematic and accessible presentation of the theoretical foundations of
higher mental processes, with each important idea made concrete by specific examples and …

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? do we control our
emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic …

Damage to the hippocampal system disrupts recent memory but leaves remote memory
intact. The account presented here suggests that memories are first stored via synaptic …

A framework for understanding source monitoring and relevant empirical evidence is
described, and several related phenomena are discussed: old–new recognition, indirect …

Important differences have emerged between introspective measures of learning, such as
recall and recognition, and performance measures, in which the performance of a task is …

To account for dissociations observed in recognition memory tests, several dual-process
models have been proposed that assume that recognition judgments can be based on the …

E LIMINATIVE materialism is the thesis that our commonsense conception of psychological
phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both …

As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can
be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive …