Chapter 8: Memory

Studying Memory: An Information-Processing Model

About MemoryThis is an excellent Web site on memory sponsored by the Exploratorium. Observe how an artist recreates his hometown scenery from memory, and read about the bombing of Nagasaki. Listen to archived Webcasts of lectures on memory and try your hand at the memory games.

http://www.learnmem.org/
The home page for the journal, Learning and Memory links to many full-text online articles.

Encoding: Getting Information In

PFC and Episodic Encoding
Explore the prefrontal cortex’s role in memory encoding, as well as links to other research on memory being done at the Stanford Memory Lab.

Hermann Ebbinghaus
A biography and profile of the memory pioneer at Indiana University’s Human Intelligence database.

Storage: Retaining Information

Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center
This site, created by the National Institute on Aging, specializes in dementia. See the links for information about causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. Links to care giving, relevant publications and resources are also available.

Information Process Theory of Learning
An outline of the Information Process Theory of Learning.

Retrieval: Getting Information Out

Short Term Memory Test - Pictures
Take an interactive test to see how well you recall certain information. After viewing a page of images for thirty seconds, you will be prompted to write down as many of those images as you can remember.

The Mnemonicizer
This interactive site helps the user to create a mnemonic (a word or sentence to help remember a larger amount of information, such as “Every Good Boy Does Fine” to remember the order of notes on the treble clef) for whatever he or she wants to commit to memory.

Gene Involved in Memory Retrieval Identified
Deborah Halber covers the role genes play in a person’s ability to retrieve stored memories.

Forgetting

The Seven Sins of Memory
How much can we rely on eyewitness accounts? Can memories change over time? Daniel Schacter discusses the seven ways in which our memories fail us.

Theories of Forgetting
Test your knowledge on the theories of forgetting. Can you remember the correct answers?

Memory Construction

Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse: Scientific Research & Scholarly Resources
Jim Hopper, a therapist at HRI Hospital in Brookline, Massachusetts, created this page, which strongly supports recovered memories.

False Memory Syndrome Foundation
A group of families and professionals affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution created the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in 1992 to document sudden claims of repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse.

Repressed Memories and Recovered Memory Therapy (RMT)
The Ontario Consultants group presents a balanced perspective on the issues.

Questions and Answers About Memories of Childhood Abuse
The American Psychological Association offers this general information page.

Improving Memory

Improving Your Memory
Tips and techniques for memory enhancement that draw from age-old wisdom as well as current neuroscience research.

The Memory Page
This website has links, tutorials and interactive activities to help you improve your memory.

Buckner Works on Improving Memory
A profile on Harvard Professor Randy Buckner and his research on memory enhancement.