Memory and the Human Lifespan (The Great Courses, 1911)

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2011. DVD. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 127-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. From the estate of Amato Giaccia, MD. Suitable for gifting.

Theese 24 lectures take you on a startling voyage into the human mind, explaining not only how the various aspects of your memory operate, but the impact memory has on your daily experience of life.

Contents:
Lecture 1 Memory is a party -- Lecture 2 The ancient "art of memory" -- Lecture 3 Rote memorization and a science of forgetting -- Lecture 4 Sensory memory--brief traces of the past -- Lecture 5 The conveyor belt of working memory -- Lecture 6 Encoding--our gateway into long-term memory -- Lecture 7 Episodic and semantic long-term memory -- Lecture 8 The secret passage--implicit memory -- Lecture 9 From procedural memory to habit -- Lecture 10 When memory systems battle--habits vs. goals -- Lecture 11 Sleep and the consolidation of memories -- Lecture 12 Infant and early childhood memory -- Lecture 13 Animal cognition and memory -- Lecture 14 Mapping memory in the brain -- Lecture 15 Neural network models -- Lecture 16 Learning from brain damage and amnesias -- Lecture 17 The many challenges of Alzheimer's disease -- Lecture 18 That powerful glow of warm familiarity -- Lecture 19 Deja vu and the illusion of memory -- Lecture 20 Recovered memories or false memories? -- Lecture 21 Mind the gaps! memory as reconstruction -- Lecture 22 How we can choose what's important to remember -- 23 Lecture Aging, memory and cognitive transition -- Lecture 24 The monster at the end of the book.