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Concise Learning and Memory

The Editor's Selection

  • 1st Edition - October 6, 2008
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: John H. Byrne
  • Language: English

The study of learning and memory is a central topic in neuroscience and psychology. Many of the basic research findings are directly applicable in the treatment of diseases and ag… Read more

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The study of learning and memory is a central topic in neuroscience and psychology. Many of the basic research findings are directly applicable in the treatment of diseases and aging phenomena, and have found their way into educational theory and praxis.Concise Learning and Memory represents the best 30 chapters from Learning and Memory: A comprehensive reference (Academic Press March 2008), the most comprehensive source of information about learning and memory ever assembled, selected by one of the most respective scientists in the field, John H. Byrne. This concise version provides a truly authoritative collection of overview articles representing fundamental reviews of our knowledge of this central cognitive function of animal brains. It will be an affordable and accessible reference for scientists and students in all areas of neuroscience and psychology. There is no other single-volume reference with such authority and comprehensive coverage and depth currently available.

Key features

  • Represents an authoritative selection of the fundamental chapters from the most comprehensive source of information about learning and memory ever assembled, Learning and Memory - A comprehensive reference (Academic Press Mar 2008)
  • Representing outstanding scholarship, each chapter is written by a leader in the field and an expert in the topic area
  • All topics represent the most up to date research
  • Full color throughout, heavily illustrated
  • Priced to provide an affordable reference to individuals and workgroups

Readership

Cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, and cognitive/experimental psychologists, theoretical neuroscientists, neurologists, as well as graduate students in these areas.

Table of contents

- Henry L. Roediger, Washington University, St. Louis: A Typology of Memory Terms
- Larry Squire, University of California, San Diego: Declarative Memory System: Amnesia
- Norman White, McGill University Montreal: Multiple Memory Systems in the Brain: Cooperation and Competition
- Daniel Schacter, Harvard University, Boston: Implicit Memory and Priming
- David Balota, Washington University, St. Louis: Semantic Memory
- Alex Martin, NIMH, Bethesda: Structural basis of Semantic memory
- Kathleen B. McDermott, Washington University, St. Louis: Episodic Memory: An Evolving Concept
- Susan Gathercole, University of York, UK: Working Memory
- Charan Ranganath, University of California, Davis: Prefrontal Cortex and Memory
- Rebecca Burwell, Brown University, Providence: Anatomy of the hippocampus and the Declarative memory system
- David Sweatt, University of Alabama, Birmingham: Long-Term Potentiation: A Candidate Cellular Mechanism for Information Storage in the CNS
- C.R.W. Hansel, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands: LTD -- Synaptic Depression and Memory Storage
- Lucas Pozzo-Miller, University of Alabama, Birmingham: Activity-Dependent Structural Plasticity of Dendritic Spines
- John Byrne, University of Texas, Houston: Plasticity of intrinsic excitability as a mechanism for memory storage
- Terry Sejnoswki, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, San Diego, CA: Neural computation theories of learning
- Edmund T Rolls, University of Oxford, UK: Computational models of hippocampal function
- Mark Packard, Texas A&M University, College Station: Neurobiology of procedural learning in animals
- John Byrne, University of Texas, Houston: Sensitization and Habituation Invertebrate
- John Byrne, University of Texas, Houston: Cellular Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Aplysia / Molecular Mechanism of Associative Learning in Aplysia
- Andrew M. Poulos, University of California, Los Angeles: Procedural learning: classical conditioning
- Glenn Schafe, Yale University, New Haven: Neural and Molecular Mechanisms of Fear Memory
- Kobi Rosenblum, University of Haifa, Israel: Conditioned Taste Aversion and Taste Learning: molecular mechanism
- Bernard W Balleine, University of California, Los Angeles: Theory of Reward Systems
- Eric Nestler, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas: The Molecular Mechanisms of Reward
- Randolph J Nudo, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City: Neurophysiology of Motor skill learning
- Robert Stickgold, Harvard University, Boston: The Role of Sleep in Memory Consolidation
- James McGaugh, University of Calfornia, Irvine: Memory modulation
- Paul Gold, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana: Memory Enhancing Drugs
- Mark Bouton, University of Vermont, Burlington: Extinction: Behavioral Mechanisms and Their Implications
- Susan Sara, College de France, Paris: Reconsolidation: Historical Perspective and Theoretical Aspects
- Ralph Miller, State University of New York, Binghamton: Retrieval from memory
- Elizabeth Marsh, Duke University, Durham, NC: False Memories
- Lennart Mucke, University of California, Los Angeles: Molecular aspects of memory disfunction in Alzheimer's Disease
- Elena Grigorenko, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT: Developmental Disorders of Learning
- Edwin J Weeber, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN: Angelman syndrome
- Jonathan M Levenson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI: Epigenetics-Chromatin structure and Rett Syndrome
- Fred H. Gage, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA: Neurogenesis

Review quotes

"I think [this volume] is exciting and has high utility, particularly now. The field of learning and memory is arguably now the strongest example of an inter-disciplinary field within the neurosciences and psychology, and the fruitfulness of that convergence is likely to only grow in the coming years. Having one volume that ties together these elements and is up to date is very useful. The scope is impressively appropriate."
Chaeron Myme, Oberlin College

"The authors represent a "who's who"of learning and memory research. It is an excellent choice of topics and exquisite selection of authors. It covers the area well, the chosen topics includes classical ones as well as hot ones."
Joseph Huston, University of Duesseldorf, Germany

"There is a need for this book. There is no comparable book on the market. [The choice of topics is] excellent. Editors and authors are very appropriate."
Avy Susswein, Bar Ilan University, Israel

"This looks amazing! I want this book!"
Lila Davachi, New York University

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 25, 2010
  • Language: English

About the editor

JB

John H. Byrne

Dr. Byrne is internationally recognized for his work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning. He has also contributed substantially to graduate and medical education, both locally and nationally. For example, he has authored or edited 15 books including three editions of his textbook From Molecules to Networks: An Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and two editions as Editor-In-Chief of the four-volume Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, both published by Academic Press. Another contribution is the development of an innovative electronic online textbook Neuroscience Online, which in 2020 received more than two million visits. His YouTube video Introduction to Neuroscience has 898,000 views. Over the past 40

years, he has trained 38 postdoctoral fellows and 25 graduate students. His contributions to education and mentoring have been recognized by his receipt of the Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience, The University of Texas System Award for Innovation in Health Science Education, The UTHealth President’s Award for Mentoring Women, the UTHealth President’s Scholar Award for Teaching and the UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award.

Affiliations and expertise
University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA