Description |
12 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (127 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
Playing Time |
060000 |
Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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Performer |
Professor Steve Joordens, University of Toronto, lecturer. |
Note |
Compact discs. |
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In two containers (19 cm.). |
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Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Memory is a party -- The ancient "art of memory" -- Rote memorization and a science of forgetting -- Sensory memory -- brief traces of the past -- The conveyor belt of working memory -- Encoding -- our gateway into long-term memory -- Episodic and semantic long-term memory -- The secret passage -- implicit memory -- From procedural memory to habit -- When memory systems battle -- habits vs. goals -- Sleep and the consolidation of memories -- Infant and early childhood memory -- Animal cognition and memory -- Mapping memory in the brain -- Neural network models -- Learning from brain damage and amnesias -- The many challenges of Alzheimer's disease -- That powerful glow of warm familiarity -- Déjà vu and the illusion of memory -- Recovered memories or false memories? -- Mind the gaps! memory as reconstruction -- How we can choose what's important to remember -- Aging, memory and cognitive transition -- The monster at the end of the book. |
Summary |
In Memory and the Human Lifespan, Professor Steve Joordens of the University of Toronto Scarborough, who has been repeatedly honored as both teacher and researcher, leads you on a startling voyage into the human mind, explaining not only how the various aspects of your memory operate, but the impact memory has on your daily experience of life. |
Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
Subject |
Memory.
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Memory. (OCoLC)fst01015913
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Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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ISBN |
9781598037555 |
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1598037552 |
Music No. |
1911 Teaching Co. |
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IC1911A Teaching Co. |
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