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Title

Lifespan development of human memory / edited by Peter Graf and Nobuo Ohta.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Graf, Peter (Professor of psychology)
• Ohta, Nobuo.

Description

viii, 299 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Developmental neurobiology
• Memory in old age
• Alzheimer's disease
• Memory
• Memory in children

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• I. Introduction. 1. The Need for a Lifespan Developmental Approach within Memory Research Is More Urgent than Ever / Nobuo Ohta -- II. The Development of Working Memory. 2. Developmental Changes in Working Memory: A Multicomponent View / Graham J. Hitch. 3. Childhood Development of Working Memory: An Examination of Two Basic Parameters / Nelson Cowan. 4. Working Memory and Attentional Processes across the Lifespan / Anik De Ribaupierre -- III. The Development of Episodic and Autobiographical Memory in Children. 5. Children's Long-Term Memory of Childhood Events / Robyn Fivush. 6. Children's Eyewitness Memory: Changing Reports and Changing Representations / David F. Bjorklund, Rhonda D. Brown and Barbara R. Bjorklund. 7. The Role of Knowledge in Children's Memory / Hidetsugu Tajika -- IV. The Normal and Abnormal Development of Episodic and Autobiographical Memory in Adulthood.
• 8. Age-Related Effects on Memory in the Context of Age-Related Effects on Cognition / Timothy A. Salthouse. 9. Autobiographical Memory across the Lifespan / David C. Rubin. 10. Memory Development in Adulthood and Old Age: The Betula Prospective-Cohort Study / Lars-Goran Nilsson, Rolf Adolfsson, Lars Backman, Marc Cruts, Hakan Edvardsson, Lars Nyberg and Christine Van Broeckhoven. 11. The Nature and Course of the Memory Impairment in Alzheimer's Disease / Lars Backman, Brent J. Small and Laura Fratiglioni -- V. The Adulthood Development of Prospective Memory. 12. Prospective Memory across the Lifespan / Elizabeth A. Maylor, Richard J. Darby, Robert H. Logie, Sergio Della Sala and Geoff Smith. 13. Prospective and Retrospective Memory in Adulthood / Peter Graf, Bob Uttl and Roger Dixon.

ISBN

026207236X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002016661

OCLC

• ocm48940847
• SCSB-4306207

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries