Human Memory and Amnesia (PLE Memory) [Hardcover]

Originally published in 1982, this book brings together two areas of research previously studied in parallel, with little interaction (particularly in the US): normal memory processing and the amnesic syndrome. When trying to document the relationship between the two it became apparent that there was much crossover and duplication of effort in a number of areas: whether long-term memory and short-term memory truly represent independent storage systems, or are simply points on a continuum; trying to determine the primary locus of variables influencing the rate at which information is lost during retention; whether episodic memory and semantic memory represent two different storage systems, or are simply artifacts produced by different kinds of query to a single memory system and finally, whether visual and verbal memory are independent.

It was written, following a meeting in 1979, by a small group of investigators, brought together to explore this commonality and to share data and theory, thus beginning the promise of a bright future of interdisciplinary interaction in memory research.

Preface.  1. Daniel L. Schacter and Endel TulvingAmnesia and Memory Research  2. Robert G. CrowderGeneral Forgetting Theory and the Locus of Amnesia  3. Laird S. CermakThe Long and Short of it in Amnesia  4. Elizabeth K. WarringtonThe Double Dissociation of Short- and Long-Term Memory Deficits  5. Stanley R. ParkinsonPerformance Deficits in Short-Term Memory Tasks: A Comparison of Amnesic Korsakoff Patients and the Aged  6. Larry L. JacobyKnowing and Remembering Some Parallels in the Behavior of Korsakoff Patients and Normals  7. Felicia A. Huppert and Malcolm PiercyIn Search of the Functional Locus of Amnesic Syndromes  8. Gordon WinocurThe Amnesic Syndrome: A Deficit Cue Utilizatiol]