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Overview
Alphabetically arranged articles provide information about biological and psychological aspects of learning and memory, along with biographies of key individuals, descriptions of various theories, and information about disorders of learning and memory. Entries range from 800 to 3,000 words and are written at a somewhat technical, but accessible level (intended for students, teachers, journalists). Sample topics include aging and memory in animals; amnesia (functional, infantile, organic, and transient global); drugs and memory; William James; learned helplessness; learning theory (current status); the morphological basis of learning and memory; neural computation; parallel distributed processing models of memory; tip-of- the-tongue phenomenon; and sex differences in learning. Byrne is June and Virgil Waggoner Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the U. of Texas Medical School. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, ORSynopsis
Alphabetically arranged articles provide information about biological and psychological aspects of learning and memory, along with biographies of key individuals, descriptions of various theories, and information about disorders of learning and memory. Entries range from 800 to 3,000 words and are written at a somewhat technical, but accessible level (intended for students, teachers, journalists). Sample topics include aging and memory in animals; amnesia (functional, infantile, organic, and transient global); drugs and memory; William James; learned helplessness; learning theory (current status); the morphological basis of learning and memory; neural computation; parallel distributed processing models of memory; tip-of- the-tongue phenomenon; and sex differences in learning. Byrne is June and Virgil Waggoner Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the U. of Texas Medical School. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Library Journal
A substantial reworking of the 1992 edition, this title features 212 articles (including 20 new entries) on a wide range of topics related to learning and memory, including standard topics studied in psychology classes-conditioning, dementia, hypnosis, and brain anatomy (placed, for some strange reason, under "Guide to brain anatomy" in the Gs although accessible from "Brain anatomy" in the index). Editor Byrne (chair, neurobiology and anatomy, Univ. of Texas Medical Sch.) has rounded up a large group of scholars and researchers in psychology and neuroscience to produce the signed entries. The result is weak on the newer cognitive sciences, with no articles on artificial intelligence or computers and only passing mention of these important topics in the index. However, the articles are well written and accessible to the undergraduate, the index and cross references are adequate, and the bibliographies included with each article are up-to-date. Given the steep price, academic libraries will find this resource nice to have but hardly indispensable. Smaller libraries can get by with a good general encyclopedia.-Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.