The memory process : neuroscientific and humanistic perspectives / edited by Suzanne Nalbantian, Paul M. Matthews, and James L. McClelland.

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[2011], ©2011
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2011], ©2011.

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vi, 440 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm

Notes

"The instigation for this book came from the Interdisciplinary Memory Symposium in Neuroscience and the Humanities held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2007 and organised by Suzanne Nalbantian".--acknowledgements

Contents

The engram revisited: on the elusive permanence of memory / Yadin Dudai -- Molecular genetics approaches to memory consolidation / Alcino J. Silva -- The epigenetic variability of memory : brain plasticity and artistic creation / Jean-Pierre Changeux -- Memory in sleep and dreams : the construction of meaning / Robert Stickgold -- The mnemonic brain : neuroimaging, neuropharmacology, and disorders of memory / Paul M. Matthews -- Memory as a constructive process : the parallel distributed processing approach / James L. McClelland -- Emotional memory processing : synaptic connectivity / Jopseph E. LeDoux and Valérie Doyère -- Functions of human emotional memory : the brain and emotion / Edmund T. Rolls -- Memory and neurophilosophy / John Bickle -- Confabulations about personal memories, normal and abnormal / William Hirstein -- The neuroethics of memory / Walter Glannon -- Autobiographical memory in modernist literature and neuroscience / Suzanne Nalbantian -- Memory and imagination in romantic fiction / Alan Richardson -- Memory in the literary memoir / John Burt Foster, Jr. -- Memory in theater : the scene is memory / Atillio Favorini -- Memory in art : history and the neuroscience of response / David Freedberg -- Memory in musical form : from Bach to Ives / David Michael Hertz -- Neurocognitive approaches to memory in music : music is memory / Barbara Tillmann, Isabelle Peretz, and Séverine Samson -- Memory, movies, and the brain / Fernando Vidal.

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  • 9780262014571
  • 0262014572