Handbook of Binding and Memory: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience
Hubert Zimmer, Axel Mecklinger, and Ulman Lindenberger
Abstract
The creation and consolidation of a memory can rest on the integration of any number of possibly disparate features and contexts — colour, sound, emotion, arousal, context. How is it that these bind together to form a coherent memory? What is the role of binding in memory formation? What are the neural processes that underlie binding? Do these binding processes change with age? This book offers an overview of binding, one of the most debated hotspots of modern memory research. It contains twenty-eig ... More
The creation and consolidation of a memory can rest on the integration of any number of possibly disparate features and contexts — colour, sound, emotion, arousal, context. How is it that these bind together to form a coherent memory? What is the role of binding in memory formation? What are the neural processes that underlie binding? Do these binding processes change with age? This book offers an overview of binding, one of the most debated hotspots of modern memory research. It contains twenty-eight chapters on binding in different domains of memory, presenting classic research from the field of cognitive neuroscience. As well as presenting an account of recent views on binding and its importance for remembering, it also includes a review of recent publications in the area. More than just a survey, it supplies an integrative view on binding in memory, fostering deep insights not only into the processes and their determinants, but also into the neural mechanisms enabling these processes. The content also encompasses a wide range of binding-related topics, including feature binding, the binding of items and contexts during encoding and retrieval, the specific roles of familiarity and recollection, as well as task- and especially age-related changes in these processes. A section is dedicated to in-depth analyses of underlying neural mechanisms, focusing on both medial temporal and prefrontal structures. Computational approaches are covered as well.
Keywords:
memory,
colour,
sound,
emotion,
arousal,
context,
binding,
memory formation,
neural mechanisms,
memory research
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2006 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198529675 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529675.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Hubert Zimmer, editor
Department of Psychology, Brain and Cognition Unit, Saarland
University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Axel Mecklinger, editor
Department of Psychology, Experimental Neuropsychology Unit,
Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Ulman Lindenberger, editor
Director, Centre for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute
for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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