About the Book
Memory is essential for every day life. The understanding and study of memory has continued to grow over the years, thanks to well controlled laboratory studies and theory development. However, major challenges arise when attempting to apply theories of memory function to practical problems in society. A theory might be robust in explaining experimental data but fail to capture all that is important when taken out of the lab. The good news is
that the application of memory in science to challenges in society is rapidly expanding, and Memory in Science for Society bridges that gap. Inspired by the synergy between theory and application in
memory research, leading international researchers share their passion for combining memory in science with applications of that science to a wide range of challenges in society. Chapters demonstrate how that scientific passion has addressed challenges in education, life attainment, second language learning, remembering life events and faces of strangers, future planning and decision making, lifespan cognitive development and age-related cognitive decline, following instructions, and
assessment and rehabilitation of cognitive impairment following brain damage.Written and edited by the leading researchers in the field, the book will be an important and influential
addition to the memory literature, providing a new and comprehensive focus on the connection between theory and practice in memory and society.
Table of Contents:
1: Robert Logie, Susan Gathercole, Nelson Cowan, Randall Engle, Zhisheng Wen: Introduction: When applying memory theory does, and does not work
2: Alan Baddeley: On Applying Cognitive Psychology
3: Vicki Bruce, Mike Burton: The problem of face identification
4: John Wixted, Henry L Roediger III: Signal Detection Theory and Eyewitness Identification
5: Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie Reyna: Fuzzy Trace Theory: Memory and Decision-Making in Law, Medicine, and Public Health
6: Adam Bulley, Dan Schacter: Episodic future thinking, memory, and decision-making: from theory to application
7: Cody A. Mashburn, Alexander P. Burgoyne, Randall Engle: Working Memory, Intelligence, and Life Success: Examining Relations to Academic Achievement, Job Performance, Physical Health, Mortality, and Psychological Well-Being
8: Graham Hitch: Modelling the phonological loop as a neural network
9: Nelson Cowan: Working Memory and Child Development with Its Windfalls and Pitfalls
10: Richard J. Allen, Amanda Waterman, Tian-xiao Yang, Agnieszka J. Graham: Working memory in action: Remembering and following instructions
11: Robyn Fivush, Elaine Reese, Catherine Haden: Parent-child autobiographical reminiscing as a foundation for literacy and science education
12: Michael Bunting, Zhisheng Wen: Working Memory in language learning and bilingual development
13: Fergus Craik, Julie Henry: Age-related Change in Everyday Prospective Memory
14: Jackie Andrade: Mental imagery: using working memory theory to design behaviour change interventions
15: Roberto Cubelli, Robert Logie, Sergio Della Sala: Neuropsychology of working memory: From theory to clinic and from clinic to theory
16: Barbara Wilson: Memory Rehabilitation: to what extent does theory influence clinical practice?
About the Author :
Robert H Logie (PhD University College London, 1981) is Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh (2004-), from 1980-1986 was at Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, 1987-2003 at University of Aberdeen. His theoretical and applied research focuses on healthy and impaired working memory across the adult lifespan. He is former editor Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, associate editor Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, chair (2015) Psychonomic Society and Panel SH4 European Research Council. He is Fellow, Royal Society of the Edinburgh, and British Psychological Society, Honorary Member European Society for Cognitive
Psychology, and 2023 Bartlett lecturer, UK Experimental Psychology Society. Zhisheng (Edward) Wen is currently a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong SAR, China. He has broad teaching and research interests in exploring the roles of working memory and language aptitude in native and second language acquisition, processing, evolution and development. His books include
