Memoria

Second revised and updated edition of the reference manual on human memory. Written by three of the world's most renowned researchers in this field of study: Alan Baddeley, Michael W. Eysenck and Michael C. Anderson. The manual offers a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging review of the field of memory study from the standpoint of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Each of the book's chapters provides additional pedagogical tools: examples from everyday life, summaries, case studies, commented experiments, and a comprehensive updated international bibliography. The authors have incorporated the latest advances in neuroscience, without which no manual on human memory would be complete, although prioritizing the psychological approach at all times in order to provide students with a conceptual basis with which to treat the different factors that come together in human memory. The manual begins with a brief presentation of the keys that preside over the scientific approach to the concept of memory, to go on to discuss the basic characteristics of the various systems associated with human memory and their operation: the differences between short and long-term memory , the role of memory in learning, the role of organization in memories, autobiographical memory, amnesia, intentional forgetfulness, childhood memories and memory deterioration in the last stage of life. The final chapters of the manual offer practical exercises for pedagogues and social workers that improve memory in patients affected by impairments in the ability to remember