Memory, Imprinting and the Brain: An Inquiry into Mechanisms

by Gabriel Horn

Overview

Ranging from behavioral to molecular levels of analysis, this informative study presents the results of recent research into the biochemistry and neural mechanisms of imprinting. Horn discusses some of the difficulties that researchers have encountered in analyzing the neural basis of memory and describes ways in which these difficulties have been overcome through the analysis of memories underlying habituation and imprinting. He also considers the biochemical consequences of imprinting and its cerebral localization, and examines the relationships between human and animal memory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198521563
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/23/1986
Series:	Oxford Psychology Series , #10
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Cambridge University

Table of Contents

1. Approaches to the analysis of the neural bases of memory2. Biochemical consequences of imprinting3. Real effects of learning? 4. Cerebral localization5. Brain lesions, acquisition, and retention6. Imprinting and associative learning7. How many stores? Cerebral asymmetry and imprinting8. Predispositions and preferences9. Physiological constraints on memory and imprinting10. Physiological and morphological consequences of training11. A structure for memory? 12. Towards a synthesisAppendix: A sketch of the avian brain with particular reference to the domestic chickAuthor indexSubject index

Editorial Reviews

"The 12 chapters focus on different experimental approaches taken by Horn and others to elucidate aspects of the neural basis of imprinting behavior. These approaches are logically devised and capably carried out . . . The monograph provides an interesting account of imprinting and is well worth reading." —Trends in Neuroscience

"All in all, this is a fascinating book . . . Horn has managed to bring the work of his group back to life by placing it into the context of thoughtfully conceived speculations and precise models . . . Provides the reader with a glimpse into one of nature's microminiaturizations of the experiential process." —Contemporary Psychology

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