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Memory and the human lifespan, Steve Joordens

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Steve Joordens

The great courses

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

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

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