Memory, aging and the brain
Subtitle: a festschrift in honor of Lars-Göran Nilsson
By: edited by Lars Bäckman & Lars Nyberg.
Contributors: Bäckman, Lars.; Nyberg, Lars, 1966-
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781841696928
Subjects: Nilsson, Lars-Göran, -- 1944-; Memory; Aging; Brain
Description: "This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory. More than this, however, the book pays tribute to the work of Lars-Goran Nilsson and his many contributions to the psychology of human memory. Covering a broad range of topics, Memory, Aging and the Brain will be of great interest to all those involved in the study and research of human memory."--Jacket
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Long-term and working memory : how do they interact? / Alan Baddeley; title: Memory for actions : how different? / Henry L. Roediger and Franklin M. Zaromb; title: Visual perceptual memory / Svein Magnussen ... [et al.]; title: Remembering in time : cognitive control of time keeping / Timo Mäntylä; title: How do brains detect novelty? / Endel Tulving; title: Bilingualism and aging : costs and benefits / Fergus I. M. Craik and Ellen Bialystok; title: Sex differences in episodic memory : the where but not the why / Agneta Herlitz ... [et al.]; title: An epidemiological approach to cognitive health in aging / Roger A. Dixon; title: Decline-induced plastic changes of brain and behavior in aging / Martin Lövdén; title: Dopamine, cognition, and human aging : new evidence and ideas / Lars Bäckman and Lars Nyberg; title: Post-traumatic fear memories : analyzing a case-study of a sexual assault / Arne Öhman; title: Environmental influences on autobiographical memory : the mnestic block syndrome / Matthias Brand, Hans J. Markowitsch; title: The cognitive neuroscience of signed language : applications to a working memory system for sign and speech / Jerker Rönnberg, Mary Rudner & Catharina Foo; title: The mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index of different forms of memory in audition / Risto Näätänen and Kairi Kreegipu; title: Imaging genomics : brain alterations associated with the APOE genotype / Johanna Lind & Lars Nyberg.