Episodic Memory

Professor Alan Baddeley FRS CBE has published prolifically over the past 30 years. He is unquestionably one of the most well known names in memory research throughout the worldProfessor John Aggleton is the editor of the classic book, The Amygdala (2nd edition published by OUP in 2000).Professor Martin Conway is a leading cognitive psychologist in the UK. His previous book for OUP - Recovered Memories and False Memories - was very well received, and commercially successful

• 1. The concept of episodic memory ; 2. Episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness: a first-person approach ; 3. Components of episodic memory: the contribution of recollection and familiarity ; 4. Sensory-perceptual episodic memory and its context: autobiographical memory ; 5. Misattribution, false recognition, and the sins of memory ; 6. Theories of episodic memory ; 7. The loss of episodic memories in retrograde amnesia: single-case and group studies ; 8. Episodic memory: insights from semantic dementia ; 9. Dissociations in cognitive memory: the syndrome of developmental amnesia ; 10. Neuroimaging studies of autobiographical event memory ; 11. Episodic-like memory in animals: psychological criteria, neural mechanisms and the value of episodic-like tasks to investigate animal models of neurodegenerative disease ; 12. Neural systems underlying episodic memory: insights from animal research ; 13. Elements of episodic-like memory in animals ; 14. Memory for events and their spatial context: models and experiments ; 15. Episodic memory and common sense: how far apart?

. . . it is a pleasure to read a collection of fifteen chapters whose quality is so consistently high . . . this book provides an important summary of many results and current views relating to episodic memory.