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Series on Biophysics and Biocybernetics - Vol. 12

MEMORY AND EMOTION
Proceedings of the International School of Biocybernetics
Casamicciola, Napoli, Italy 18 - 23 October 1999

edited by Pasquale Calabrese (Universitätklinik, Bochum, Germany) & Anna Neugebauer (Istituto Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica, CNR, Napoli, Italy)

This book deals primarily with the role of emotions in the mechanisms of memory. It is a compilation of the lectures given at a course conducted at the International School of Biocybernetics.


Contents:

  • From Perception to Retrieval — The Building Blocks of Memory:
  • Functional Neuroanatomy of Memory (H J Markowitsch)
  • Electrocortical Processing of Subliminally Presented Phobic Stimuli (S Krieshel et al.)
  • Emotional Gating of Memory Content:
  • The Neurobiology of Emotion and Mood (R J Dolan)
  • Auditory Sensory Gating in the Hippocampus (P C Bickford et al.)
  • Declarative and Non-Declarative Memory:
  • Human Memory Systems (R J Dolan)
  • Cognitive and Brain Mechanisms Involved in Procedural Learning (K Schmidtke)
  • From Cellular Mechanisms to the Architecture of Memory:
  • Short and Long-Term Memory (R Walz et al.)
  • Noradrenergic Agonist-Induced Catalepsy and Learning Effect in Albino Mice (A Sukul & N C Sukul)
  • Memory and Emotion in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Subjects:
  • Brain Mechanisms Involved in Emotion (E T Rolls)
  • The Impact of Memory Training in Dementia (M S Tropper)
  • Psychogenic, Non-Organic Factors in Memory and Emotion:
  • Memory Biases: A Cognitive Marker for Depression (E Gilboa-Schechtman)
  • Postural Memories and Emotions (M G Turati)
  • and other papers


Readership: Postdoctoral students and researchers in biophysics, neuroscience and physiology.

532pp Pub. date: Oct 2002
ISBN 978-981-238-170-5
981-238-170-8
US$118 / £87


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