Episodic memory proves essential for daily function, allowing us to remember where we parked the car, what time we walked the dog, or what a friend said earlier. In How We Remember, Michael Hasselmo draws on recent developments in neuroscience to present a new model describing the brain mechanisms for encoding and remembering such events as spatiotemporal trajectories. He reviews physiological breakthroughs on the regions implicated in episodic memory, including the discovery of grid cells, the cellular mechanisms of persistent spiking and resonant frequency, and the topographic coding of space and time. These discoveries inspire a theory for understanding the encoding and retrieval of episodic memory not just as discrete snapshots but as a dynamic replay of spatiotemporal trajectories, allowing us to retrace our steps to recover a memory. In the main text of the book, he presents the model in narrative form, accessible to scholars and advanced undergraduates in many fields. In the appendix, he presents the material in a more quantitative style, providing mathematical descriptions appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in neuroscience or engineering.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780262016353
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111598327
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Developmental Psychology
Author
Michael E. Hasselmo
Publication Name
How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
178mm
Item Weight
908g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Michael E. Hasselmo
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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