• E. Tulving: Concepts of human memory; Part I: Distribution of learning-induced brain activity: W.J. Freeman: Insights into processes of visual perception from studies in the olfactory syste,; A. Grinvald et al: Optical imaging of cortical activity in the living brain; M.E. Raichle: Modular organization of information processing in the normal human brain: studies with positron emission topography; P.E. Roland, B. Gulyas and R.J. Seitz: Structures in the human brain participating in visual learning, tactile learning, and motor learning; H. Scheich, E. Wallhausser-Franke and K. Braun: Does synaptic selection explain auditory imprinting?; Part II: Functional roles of brain systems: H. Eichenbaum et al: Memory representation in the hippocampus: functional domain and functional organization; J. LeDoux: Systems and synapses of emotional memory; G.H. Recanzone and M.M. Merzenich: Alterations of the functional organization of primary somatosensory cortex following intracortical microstimulation or behavioral training; Y. Miyashita et al: Localization of primal long-term memory in the primate temporal cortex; D.S. Olton et al: Mnemonic functions of the cholinergic septohippocampal system; Part III: Locus of cellular change: C.H. Bailey and M. Chen: The anatomy of long-term sensitization in Aplysia: morphological insights into learning and memory; C.M. Gall and J.C. Lauterborn: Activity-dependent neuronal gene expression: a potential memory mechanism; G. Lynch et al: Relating variants of synaptic potentiation to different types of memory operations in hippocampus and related structures; E.N. Sokolov: Local plasticity in neuronal learning; S.P.R. Rose: What the chick can tell us about the process and structure of memory.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is involved in memory research. It brings together recent work in a broad area and the treatment is clear and authoritative. Final year undergraduates and post-graduates should also find many of the chapters intelligible and useful.