Abstract
Concepts are crucial in all scientific fields. They permit researchers to conceive of the phenomena studied in certain ways and, as the history of science teaches, they can prevent researchers from seeing these phenomena in other ways. This chapter reviews and analyzes 16 concepts critical to the study of learning and memory: learning, plasticity, memory, encoding, consolidation, coding and representation, working memory, persistence (storage), retrieval, remembering, transfer, context, forgetting, inhibition, memory systems, and phylogeny and evolution. Of course, many other important concepts exist, but these are essential. Psychology and neuroscience seem to accrue new concepts and rarely is a concept abandoned.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory |
| Subtitle of host publication | Foundations and Applications |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 3-28 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190918019 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780190917982 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 18 2024 |
Keywords
- Coding and recoding
- Concept
- Consolidation
- Context
- Encoding
- Forgetting
- Inhibition
- Learning
- Memory
- Persistence
- Plasticity
- Remembering
- Retrieval
- Storage
- Transfer
- Working memory
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