Memory and the Human Lifespan

Embark on a startling voyage into the human mind to discover how the various aspects of your memory operate. An award-winning professor explains the different systems that make memory possible and how these systems work together.

• By This Expert
• 01: Memory Is a Party
• 02: The Ancient "Art of Memory"
• 03: Rote Memorization and a Science of Forgetting
• 04: Sensory Memory-Brief Traces of the Past
• 05: The Conveyor Belt of Working Memory
• 06: Encoding-Our Gateway into Long-Term Memory
• 07: Episodic and Semantic Long-Term Memory
• 08: The Secret Passage-Implicit Memory
• 09: From Procedural Memory to Habit
• 10: When Memory Systems Battle-Habits vs. Goals
• 11: Sleep and the Consolidation of Memories
• 12: Infant and Early Childhood Memory
• 13: Animal Cognition and Memory
• 14: Mapping Memory in the Brain
• 15: Neural Network Models
• 16: Learning from Brain Damage and Amnesias
• 17: The Many Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease
• 18: That Powerful Glow of Warm Familiarity
• 19: Deja Vu and the Illusion of Memory
• 20: Recovered Memories or False Memories?
• 21: Mind the Gaps! Memory as Reconstruction
• 22: How We Choose What's Important to Remember
• 23: Aging, Memory, and Cognitive Transition
• 24: The Monster at the End of the Book