Forgetting (Current Issues in Memory)

Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory. This volume addresses various aspects of forgetting, drawing from several disciplines, including experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging, clinical neurology, and computational modeling. The first chapters of the book discuss the history of forgetting, its theories and accounts, the difference between short-term and long-term forgetting as well as the relevance of forgetting within each of the numerous components of memory taxonomy. The central part summarizes and discusses what we have learned about forgetting from animal work, from computational modeling, and from neuroimaging. Further chapters discuss pathological forgetting in patients with amnesia and epilepsy, as well as psychogenic forgetting. The book concludes by focusing on the difference between forgetting of autobiographical memories versus collective memory forgetting. This book is the first to address the issue of forgetting from an interdisciplinary point of view, but with a particular emphasis on psychology. The book is scientific and yet accessible in tone, and as such is suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology and related subjects, such as science and neuroscience. Forgetting: Preliminary Considerations / Henry L. Roediger Iii, Yana Weinstein, And Pooja K. Agarwal -- Forgetting: A Historical Perspective / Hans J. Markowitsch And Matthias Brand -- A New Taxonomy Of Memory And Forgetting / Roberto Cubelli -- Forgetting In Memory Models: Arguments Against Trace Decay And Consolidation Failure / Gordon D.a. Brown And Stephan Lewandowsky -- Connectionist Models Of Forgetting / Jaap M.j. Murre -- Synaptic Plasticity And The Neurobiology Of Memory And Forgetting / Flavia Valtorta And Fabio Benfenati -- The Functional Neuroimaging Of Forgetting / Benjamin J. Levy, Brice A. Kuhl, And Anthony D. Wagner -- Sleep And Forgetting / Philippe Peigneux, Remy Schmitz, And Charline Urbain -- Forgetting Due To Retroactive Interference In Amnesia: Findings And Implications / Michaela Dewar, Nelson Cowan, And Sergio Della Sala -- Accelerated Long-term Forgetting / Christopher Butler, Nils Muhlert, And Adam Zeman -- Aspects Of Forgetting In Psychogenic Amnesia / Matthias Brand And Hans J. Markowitsch -- Autobiographical Forgetting, Social Forgetting, And Situated Forgetting: Forgetting In Context / Celia B. Harris, John Sutton, And Amanda J. Barnier -- The Role Of Retroactive Interference And Consolidation In Everyday Forgetting / John T. Wixted. Edited By Sergio Della Sala. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Book Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 Contributors 10 Preface 14 1 Forgetting: Preliminary considerations 16 2 Forgetting: A historical perspective 38 3 A new taxonomy of memory and forgetting 50 4 Forgetting in memory models: Arguments against trace decay and consolidation failure 64 5 Connectionist models of forgetting 92 6 Synaptic plasticity and the neurobiology of memory and forgetting 116 7 The functional neuroimaging of forgetting 150 8 Sleep and forgetting 180 9 Forgetting due to retroactive interference in amnesia: Findings and implications 200 10 Accelerated long-term forgetting 226 11 Aspects of forgetting in psychogenic amnesia 254 12 Autobiographical forgetting, social forgetting, and situated forgetting: Forgetting in context 268 13 The role of retroactive interference and consolidation in everyday forgetting 300 Author index 328 Subject index 344 1848720122,9781848720121 Psychology Press