EXP
4504: HUMAN MEMORY
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FALL 2007
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Topic |
Text Readings |
Other readings and resources
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| APPROACHES
TO THE STUDY OF HUMAN MEMORY |
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| 8/23 |
perspectives on memory |
DSI:
1-13; DS1: 15-38 |
Aristotle on
memory |
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| 8/28a |
prescientific concepts
of memory |
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| 8/28b |
the science of memory |
GR1:
1-20
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Ebbinghaus
on memory |
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| 8/30 |
experimental methods and
tasks |
GR3:
45-64
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Signal
Detection tutorial
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| 9/4a,b |
clinical tests of
memory impairment |
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HBJ on the WMS-III
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| THE
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MEMORY |
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| 9/6 |
the neuronal bases of
memory |
GR2:
21-26
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Johnston
on dendrites
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| 9/11a,b |
neural networks and
connectionist models |
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Connectionism
overview
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| 9/13 |
the revolution in
brain imaging |
GR3:
26-44
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fMRI
tutorial
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| 9/18a,b |
memory systems in the
brain |
DS2:
52-56; 64-69 |
McGill
U on memory & the brain
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| 9/20 |
EXAM #1 |
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| SHORT-TERM
MEMORY |
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| 9/25a,b |
short-term memory as a
distinct system |
GR4:
75-89
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| 9/27 |
working memory: STM in
cognition |
GR5:
91-112
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APA on improving
WM
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| DECLARATIVE
MEMORY: KNOWING WHAT |
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| 10/2a |
encoding: attention and
rehearsal |
GR7:
150-159
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10/2b
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encoding: elaboration
and relational encoding |
DS2:
39-52
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MindTools'
mnemonics
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10/4
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memory improvement: What
are the limits? |
GR14:
314-318
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AJ's
remarkable memory
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| 10/9a,b |
retrieval mechanisms |
DS2:
56-64, 69-71; GR7: 133-141
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| 10/11 |
the course of forgetting |
DS3:
72-88; GR7:
141-150
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| 10/16a,b |
distortion and
reconstruction |
DS4:
98-133; GR12:
259-276 |
Memories of
alien abduction
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| PROCEDURAL
MEMORY: KNOWING HOW |
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| 10/18 |
skill as procedural memory |
GR6:
113-123
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| 10/23a,b |
implicit memory |
DS6:
161-191; GR6:
123-132 |
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10/25
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EXAM
#2 |
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| MEMORY
OVER THE LIFETIME |
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| 10/30a |
memory phenomenology
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GR14:
299-314
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| 10/30b |
autobiographical memory |
DS3:
88-97; GR11:
239-257
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| 11/1 |
aging and memory |
DS10:
280-300; GR15:
328-337
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Jacoby on aging
and memory errors
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| EMOTION
AND MEMORY: THE TROUBLED SOUL |
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| 11/6a,b |
emotion, arousal and
memory |
DS7:
192-217; GR13:
279-288
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| 11/8 |
fugues and dissociations |
DS8:
218-247; GR16:
355-359
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APA on suppressing
memories
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| 11/13 |
the recovered-memory furor
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DS9:
248-279
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BRAIN
DAMAGE AND MEMORY: THE VULNERABLE MIND (Case Study Reports)
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| 11/15 |
disorders of episodic memory |
DS5:
134-160; GR16:
339-355
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| 11/20a,b |
"
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| 11/27a,b |
disorders of semantic memory
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GR17:
370-375
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| 11/29 |
Alzheimer's disease & other dementias
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GR17:
361-370
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APA on mending
memory
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| 12/4 |
EXAM #3 |
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