Memory and the human lifespan
Record details
- ISBN: 9781598037562 (set) :
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Physical Description:
videorecording
videodisc
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 127 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) - Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Course no. 1911." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-122) of coursebook. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1. Memory is a party ; Ancient "art of memory" ; Rote memorization and a science of forgetting ; Sensory memory - brief traces of the past ; Conveyor belt of working memory ; Encoding - our gateway into long-term memory -- disc 2. Episodic and semantic long-term memory ; Secret passage - implicit memory ; From procedural memory to habit ; When memory systems battle - habits vs. goals ; Sleep and the consolidation of memories ; Infant and early childhood memory -- disc 3. Animal cognition and memory ; Mapping memory in the brain ; Neural network models ; Learning from brain damage and amnesias ; Many challenges of Alzheimer's disease ; That powerful glow of warm familiarity -- disc 4. Déjà vu and the illusion of memory ; Recovered memories or false memories? ; Mind the gaps! memory as reconstruction ; How we choose what's important to remember ; Aging, memory and cognitive transition ; Monster at the end of the book. |
System Details Note: | DVD. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | FOR HOME USE ONLY. |
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Subject: | Memory Memory -- Physiological aspects Long-term memory Memory -- Age factors |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Quesnel Branch | 153.12 JOO (book) (Text) | 33923005548189 | Great Courses | Volume hold | Available | - |
Quesnel Branch | 153.12 JOO (dvd) (Text) | 33923005548064 | Great Courses | Volume hold | Available | - |
Williams Lake Branch | 153.12 JOO (Text) | 33923005548684 | Great Courses | Volume hold | Available | - |
Williams Lake Branch | 153.12 JOO (Text) | 33923005548809 | Great Courses | Available | - |
Summary:
What if your memory suddenly vanished? What if you could no longer summon up any recollections of your mother's embrace, a best friend's confidences, or the moment you first met your spouse? What if you couldn't even remember yourself, not your name, your school, where you worked, or even the face of the total stranger staring back at you from the mirror? If all of these memories were gone, would "self" even have a meaning? The truth is that while you may think of human memory as a capacity, a way to call up important facts or episodes from your past, it is much, much more. Your various memory systems provide the continuity of consciousness that allows the concept of "you" to make sense, creating the ongoing narrative that makes your life truly yours. Without those systems and the overall experience of memory they make possible, you would have no context for the most crucial decisions of your life. You would have to make, without the benefit of experience and knowledge, the decisions that determine not only your quality of life, but your very survival. And your ability to learn, or even to form the personality that makes you unique, would similarly be set adrift.