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Basic and Applied Memory Research, Vols. 1 and 2 (1996)

A wide array of topics in basic and applied memory research are evaluated, including the practical application of memory research, memory and clinical problems, memory and study strategies, eyewitness memory, memory for faces, memory aids, amnesia, drugs and memory, and aging.

Human Memory (1990)

The chapter you have just read highlighted Baddeley’s contemporary working memory model. In his book, Baddeley extensively reviews research on memory to support the development of his memory model.

Memory and Cognition

This research journal publishes articles on many aspects of memory and cognition. Topics of articles in recent issues of the journal include priming, distinctiveness, organization, autobiographical memory, schema theory, face processing, working memory, and retrieval processes.

The 36-Hour Day (1981)

Alzheimer’s is a widespread disorder in aging individuals. Its symptoms include memory loss. This book is a family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer’s.

Psychological Factors in Eyewitness Identification (1995)

Researchers from different fields address a variety of issues involving eye witness identification. Among the topics discussed are voice recognition by humans and computers, children’s memories, cross-racial identification, facial image reconstruction techniques, and person descriptions.

Remembering Our Past (1995)

Currently, there is increased interest in autobiographical memory. In this book, a number of contributors describe many dimensions of autobiographical memory.

Total Recall (1984)

This book is full of helpful techniques for improving your memory. The author has given seminars on improving memory to a number of corporations, including IBM and General Electric. Tips on how to improve your memory draw on such important dimensions of memory as retrieval cues, depth of processing, linkages between short-term and long-term memory, episodic memory, and semantic memory. You also learn how to remember what you read, how to remember names and faces, how to remember dates and numbers, how to remember what you hear, and effective study strategies.

Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It (1988)

This practical book outlines strategies for using the principles of memory to remember all sorts of things in your personal life.

Internet Resources

http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/trauma.html

Resources for trauma-related forgetting.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/memory.html

Self-Improvement On-line for better memory strategies.

http://www.well.com/user/smalin/miller.html

A reprint of George Miller’s classic article on "71/–2."

http://www.psych-web.com/mtsite/memory.html

Mindtools offers memory techniques and mnemonics.

http://advicom.net/~fitz/csicop/si/9503/memory.html

Elizabeth Loftus explores the phemenon of recovered memories.

http://braindance.com/frambdi6.htm

Memory strategies based on mind-mapping.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/ptsd/RQ Spring 1996.html

A provocative article about what happens to memory under stress.

http://marlin.utmb.edu/~nkeele/

An exploration of the amygdala’s role in memory.

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