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Learning and Memory

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Fourth  Edition©2020  Mark A. Gluck; Eduardo Mercado; Catherine E. Myers

ISBN:9781319207335

ISBN:9781319207328

ISBN:9781319107383

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The new edition again offers the book’s signature inclusion of human and non-human studies and full-color design and images. You’ll find even more meaningful real-life examples; new coverage of learning and memory research and brain-imaging; an expanded discussion of the role of genetics in producing individual differences; new material on the role of sleep in memory, and more.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introductory Module

CHAPTER 1 Fundamental Themes in the Psychology of Learning and Memory

CHAPTER 2 The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory

Learning Module

CHAPTER 3 Habituation, Sensitization, and Familiarization:

Learning About Repeated Events

CHAPTER 4 Classical Conditioning:

Learning to Predict Significant Events

CHAPTER 5 Operant Conditioning:

Learning the Outcome of Behaviors

CHAPTER 6 Generalization, Discrimination Learning, and Concept Formation

Memory Module

CHAPTER 7 Episodic and Semantic Memory:

Memory for Events and for Facts

CHAPTER 8 Skill Memory:

Learning by Doing

CHAPTER 9 Working Memory and Cognitive Control

Integrative Topics Module

CHAPTER 10 Emotional Influences on Learning and Memory

CHAPTER 11 Social Learning and Memory:

Observing, Interacting, and Reenacting

CHAPTER 12 Development and Aging:

Learning and Memory Across the Lifespan

Glossary G-1

References R-1

Name Index NI-1

Subject Index SI-1

Mark A. Gluck

Mark A. Gluck is a Professor of Neuroscience and Public Health at Rutgers University–Newark and Director of the Rutgers Aging and Brain Health Alliance. His research focuses on the cognitive, computational, and neural bases of learning and memory; on the consequences of memory loss due to aging, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Alzheimer’s disease; and on how sleep and exercise can improve cognition and brain health. His international collaborations have included research in England, Hungary, China, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and the Palestinian West Bank.
Locally, he is active in community-engaged research in and around Newark, New Jersey, where he partners with local churches, senior centers, and federally subsidized low-income housing to promote brain health and Alzheimer’s disease awareness among older African Americans. Gluck is co-author, with Catherine E. Myers, of Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (MIT Press, 2001), is co-editor of three other books, and has published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal articles. In 1996, he was awarded an NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Bill Clinton and also received the American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Administration, and multiple divisions of the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Strokes. Find more on his research and career at www.gluck.edu and www.brainhealth.rutgers.edu.

Eduardo Mercado

Eduardo Mercado is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.  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 behavioral neuroscience to explore questions about auditory learning and memory in rodents, cetaceans, and humans.

Catherine E. Myers

Catherine E. Myers is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience at the New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, as well as a Research Scientist with the Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System. Her research includes computational neuroscience and experimental psychology, focusing on human learning and memory and how these abilities can be disrupted in conditions such as amnesia, Alzheimer’s disease, opioid use disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and is co-author (with Mark Gluck) of Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (MIT Press, 2001), as well as author of Delay Learning in Artificial Neural Networks (Chapman and Hall, 1992). Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, and National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse), the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Science Foundation via the NSF/NIH Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) program. More information on her research is available at www.cemyers.com.