Bücher der Reihe Current Issues in Memory

Processes of remembering generally serve us well, but there are circumstances in which they can lead us to develop a distorted sense of our past. Research into the phenomenon of false memory has increased considerably over the last twenty years, focusing on the implications of distorted memories in legal and therapeutic contexts, and the perhaps less¿dramatic consequences for our sense of self and identity. False and Distorted Memories draws on the expertise of leading international researchers to present an up¿to-date snapshot of key developments in the field. It will also explore future directions, whilst synthesizing new findings on the causes, contexts and consequences of false memories.

Featuring contributions from world-leading experts, this book presents a timely overview of current theoretical, methodological, and applied issues in the field of prospective memory.

Autobiographical memory is the integration of memory skills and the ability to narrate. It helps in understanding our relation to self, family, culture, brain development and traumatic experiences.The volume discusses approaches to childhood memories and examines research on the development of autobiographical memory.

Autobiographical memory is the integration of memory skills and the ability to narrate. It helps in understanding our relation to self, family, culture, brain development and traumatic experiences.The volume discusses approaches to childhood memories and examines research on the development of autobiographical memory.

In order to understand memory we need to understand how and why we forget. This book addresses forgetting, drawing from several disciplines, and is suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology and related subjects.

The rapid growth in the numbers of older people worldwide has led to an equally rapid growth in research on the changes across age in cognitive function, including the processes of moment to moment cognition known as working memory. This book brings together international research leaders who address major questions about how age affects working memory: Why is working memory function much better preserved in some people than others? In all healthy adults, which aspects of working memory are retained in later years and which aspects start declining in early adulthood? Can cognitive training help slow cognitive decline with age? How are changes in brain structures, connectivity and activation patterns related to important changes in working memory function? Impairments of cognition, and particularly of working memory, can be major barriers to independent living. The chapters of this book dispel some popular myths about cognitive ageing, while presenting the state of the science on how and why working memory functions as it does throughout the adult lifespan. Working Memory and Aging is the first volume to provide an overview of the burgeoning literature on changes in working memory function across healthy and pathological ageing, and it will be of great interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in psychology and related subject areas concerned with the effects of human ageing, including several areas of medicine.

Featuring contributions from world-leading experts, this book presents a timely overview of current theoretical, methodological, and applied issues in the field of prospective memory.

Current Issues in Memory is a series of edited books that reflect the state-of-the-art areas of current and emerging interest in the psychological study of Memory.