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Course Readings
Milner (1985). Memory and the human brain. In: How We Know (Shafto, ed.), Harper & Row, San Francisco, pp.: 31-59.
Squire (1992). Memory and the hippocampus: A synthesis from findings with rats, monkeys, and humans. Psychological Review, 99, 195-231
Gaffan, D. (2002) Against memory systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , B, 357, 1111-1121.
Westmacott R, Black SE, Freedman M, Moscovitch M (2004). The contribution of autobiographical significance to semantic memory: evidence from Alzheimer's disease, semantic dementia, and amnesia Neuropsychologia42: 25-48
Brewer, J., et al., Making memories: brain activity that predicts how well visual experience will be remembered. Science, 1998. 281: 1185-1187.
Wagner, A.D., et al., Building memories: remembering and forgetting of verbal experiences as predicted by brain activity. Science, 1998. 281: 1188-1191.
Ranganath C, Yonelinas AP, Cohen MX, Dy CJ, Tom SM, D'Esposito M (2004). Dissociable correlates of recollection and familiarity within the medial temporal lobes. Neuropsychologia, 42, 2-13.
E.A. Maguire and C.D. Frith (2004). The brain network associated with acquiring semantic knowledge. NeuroImage, 22, 171-178.
Hebb (1949) The Organization of Behavior. Science Editions, New York . (excerpt: pp. 60-66) + Martinez & Derrick (1996). Long-term potentiation and learning. Annual Review of Psychology, 47: 173-203.
Bliss and Lomo (1973). Long-lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the dentate are of the anaesthetized rabbit following stimulation of the perforant path. Journal of Physiology, 232: 331-356.)
Wittenberg GM. Tsien JZ. (2002). An emerging molecular and cellular framework for memory processing by the hippocampus. Trends in Neurosciences, 25, 501-505
Wittenberg GM. Sullivan MR. Tsien JZ. (2002). Synaptic reentry reinforcement based network model for long-term memory consolidation. Hippocampus. 12, 637-647.
B. Leuner, S. Mendolia-Loffredo, Y. Kozorovitskiy,D. Samburg, E. Gould, and T.J. Shors. (2004) Learning Enhances the Survival of New Neurons beyond the Time when the Hippocampus Is Required for Memory. The Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 7477–7481.
Balota, D.A., Dolan, P.A., and Ducheck, J.M., (2000). Memory Changes in Healthy Older Adults, in E. Tulving and F.I.M. Craik (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Memory , Oxford University Press ( Oxford , U.K. ), pp. 395-409.
Anderson, N.D. and Craik, F.I.M. (2000). Memory in the Aging Brain, in E. Tulving and F.I.M. Craik (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Memory, Oxford University Press (Oxford, U.K.), pp. 411-425.
Mitchell KJ, Raye CL, Greene EJ (2004). An age-related deficit in prefrontal cortical function associated with refreshing information. Psychological Science, 15, 127-132.
Li SC, Lindenberger U, Hommel B, Aschersleben G, Prinz W, Baltes PB (2004). Transformations in the couplings among intellectual abilities and constituent cognitive processes across the life span. Psychological Science, 15, 155-163.
Li SC, Lindenberger U, Hommel B, Aschersleben G, Prinz W, Baltes PB (2004). Transformations in the couplings among intellectual abilities and constituent cognitive processes across the life span. Psychological Science, 15, 155-163.
Postle & Corkin (1998). Impaired word-stem completion priming but intact perceptual identification priming with novel words: evidence from the amnesic patient H.M. Neuropsychologia, 36, 421-440.
Henson RN. Goshen-Gottstein Y. Ganel T. Otten LJ. Quayle A. Rugg MD. (2003). Electrophysiological and haemodynamic correlates of face perception, recognition and priming, Cerebral Cortex, 13, 793-805.
Jacobsen, C.F. (1936). Studies of cerebral function in primates: I. The functions of the frontal association areas in monkeys. Comparative Psychology Monographs, 13, 3-60
Malmo , R.B. (1942). Interference factors in delayed response in monkeys after removal of frontal lobes. Journal of Neurophysiology, 5, 295-308
Takeda K, Funahashi S (2002). Prefrontal task-related activity representing visual cue location or saccade direction in spatial working memory tasks. Journal of Neurophysiology, 87, 567-588.
Tallon-Baudry, C., Mandon, S., Freiwald, W.A., and Kreiter, A.K. (2004). Oscillatory synchrony in the monkey temporal lobe correlates with performance in a visual short-term memory task. The Journal of Neuroscience, 21, 177-182.
Baddeley, A.D. (1992). Working Memory. Science, 255, 556-559
Vogel, E.K., and Machizawa, M.G. Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity. Nature, 428, 748-750.
Todd, J.J. and Marois, R. (2004). Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex. Nature, 428, 751-754.
