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Learning and Memory Major Ideas, Principles, Issues and Applications
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Robert W. Howard
Book Code: C4641
ISBN: 0-275-94641-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94641-8
256 pages, figures
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/1995
List Price: $117.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...should appeal to upper division-undergraduate and graduate students and professionals already familiar with the basic principles and theories of learning and memory.
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Description: This book surveys the entire field of learning and memory. It describes the major approaches to its study and looks at basic assumptions and philosophical underpinnings. Howard integrates work from quite different perspectives into a single framework, and describes peripheral areas not usually mentioned in mainstream books, such as prenatal learning, constraints on knowledge, nonconnectionist machine learning, intelligence and learning, and skills learning. He gives the reader a broad knowledge of what the field is all about, what its parts are and how they interrelate, its major principles and key applications. The primary contribution of this work is the integration of current thinking about learning with the literature and research on memory.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The ability to learn and remember
  • Learning and memory in evolution and in animals
  • Structures and processes of the memory system
  • Knowledge
  • Skills and expertise
  • Effects of age, intelligence, and styles on learning and memory
  • Machine learning: Symbolic and Connectionist
  • Applications
  • References
  • Index
LC Card Number: 94-180177
LCC Class: BF318
Dewey Class: 153.1
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