Thinking about human memory / Michael S. Humphreys, Kerry A. Chalmers.

Call Number	153.1/2
Author	Humphreys, Michael S., author.
Title	Thinking about human memory / Michael S. Humphreys, Kerry A. Chalmers.
Physical Description	1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016).
Contents	Overview of how to analyze memory tasks -- Analysing the goals of a task -- The importance of thinking about cues and targets -- Theoretical analyses involving the use of information and its complexity -- Opportunity for learning -- The discrimination problems posed by different memory tasks -- Controlling human memory -- Episodic memory -- Conclusions.
Summary	Thinking About Human Memory provides a novel analytical approach to understanding memory that considers the goals of the memory task, the cues and information available, the opportunity to learn, and interference from irrelevant information (noise). Each of the five chapters describing this approach introduces historical ideas and demonstrates how current thinking both differs from and is derived from them. These chapters also contain analyses of current problems designed to demonstrate the power of the approach. In a subsequent chapter, the authors discuss how memory is controlled by the environment, by others, and by ourselves, and then apply their insights to the problem solving of children, our hominin ancestors, and scrub jays. Finally, the questions of how to define episodic memory and how to investigate phylogenetic and developmental changes in memory are addressed. This book will appeal to memory researchers, including applied researchers, and advanced students.
Added Author	Chalmers, Kerry A., author.
Subject	MEMORY.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316091920

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Summary	Thinking About Human Memory provides a novel analytical approach to understanding memory that considers the goals of the memory task, the cues and information available, the opportunity to learn, and interference from irrelevant information (noise). Each of the five chapters describing this approach introduces historical ideas and demonstrates how current thinking both differs from and is derived from them. These chapters also contain analyses of current problems designed to demonstrate the power of the approach. In a subsequent chapter, the authors discuss how memory is controlled by the environment, by others, and by ourselves, and then apply their insights to the problem solving of children, our hominin ancestors, and scrub jays. Finally, the questions of how to define episodic memory and how to investigate phylogenetic and developmental changes in memory are addressed. This book will appeal to memory researchers, including applied researchers, and advanced students.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016).
Contents	Overview of how to analyze memory tasks -- Analysing the goals of a task -- The importance of thinking about cues and targets -- Theoretical analyses involving the use of information and its complexity -- Opportunity for learning -- The discrimination problems posed by different memory tasks -- Controlling human memory -- Episodic memory -- Conclusions.
Subject	MEMORY.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316091920