Behavioral Neuroscience of Learning and Memory

Brings evidence from human and animal research together in a single volume

Explains how technological advances are opening up new possibilities for research that would have seemed like science fiction only a few years ago

Showcases the knowledge and opinions of some of the world's cutting-edge neurobiological researchers in learning and memory

Brings evidence from human and animal research together in a single volume Explains how technological advances are opening up new possibilities for research that would have seemed like science fiction only a few years ago Showcases the knowledge and opinions of some of the world's cutting-edge neurobiological researchers in learning and memory

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Preface.- A History and Overview of the Behavioral Neuroscience of Learning and Memory. - Current Topics Regarding the Function of the Medial Temporal Lobe Memory System.- Neural activity patterns underlying spatial coding in the hippocampus.- What versus where: Non-spatial aspects of memory representation by the hippocampus.- The functional and structural neuroanatomy of systems consolidation for autobiographical and semantic memory.- Memory Reconsolidation.- The Sensory Neocortex and Associative Memory.- The Representational Basis of Working Memory.- The neuroscience of human decision-making through the lens of learning and memory.- Basal forebrain cholinergic system and memory.- Habit Formation and the Striatum.- The Anatomy and Physiology of Eyeblink Classical Conditioning.- Exploration of the Neurobiological Basis for a Three-System, Multi-Attribute Model of Memory.