About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 202. Chapters: Mnemonic, Forgetting curve, Declarative memory, Short-term memory, Long-term memory, Deja vu, Working memory, Sleep and memory, Prospective memory, Fuzzy-trace theory, Recognition memory, Procedural memory, Improving memory, Recall, Neuroplasticity, Autobiographical memory, Semantic memory, Context-dependent memory, Motivated forgetting, Remember versus know judgements, Long-term depression, Memory for the future, Methods used to study memory, Retrospective memory, Emotion and memory, Encoding, Muscle memory, Reminiscence bump, Effects of alcohol on memory, Synaptic plasticity, Autism and working memory, Iconic memory, Interference theory, Flashback, Episodic memory, Levels-of-processing effect, Motor learning, Andriy Slyusarchuk, Inhibitory postsynaptic potential, Thought suppression, Baddeley's model of working memory, Eidetic memory, Memory-prediction framework, Cryptomnesia, Barrel cortex, Decay theory, Visual short term memory, Childhood amnesia, Echoic memory, Sensory memory, Memory inhibition, Working memory training, Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model, Spike-timing-dependent plasticity, Confabulation, Chunking, Excitatory postsynaptic potential, Serial position effect, Suspense, Hyperfocus, N-back, The Seven Sins of Memory, Memory span, Reading span task, Testing effect, Explicit memory, 1-2-AX working memory task, Carl Otto Reventlow, Irrelevant speech effect, Cue-dependent forgetting, Human memory process, Transfer-appropriate processing, Negative Transfer, Lateral intraparietal cortex, Sensory motor amnesia, Dual-task paradigm, Free recall, Verbal memory, Episodic learning, Concurrent overlap, Active recall, Storage, Memory augmentation. Excerpt: Working memory is the ability to actively hold information in the mind needed to do complex tasks such as reasoning, comprehension and learning. Working memory task...
