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Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts

Ulric Neisser, Ira Hyman

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Intruiging, different, and varied views on memory 4 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This book differs from the standard theoretical texts on the psychology of memory. It offers a view of the role of memory in a variety of contexts, thus looking at its subject from many perspectives. I think the book offers an excellent companion text to a course on theories of memory. In addition, it may be of interest to the lay reader as well, because of its emphasis on practical aspects of memory, and because of of its clarification of many phenomena that give memories a mystical air. If you're interested in a thought-provoking psychology text, this is a book to go for.

Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory

Marilee B. Sprenger

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"This is the kind of book that needs to be read and reread. There's so much usable information. A great resource for all teachers."
-William Fitzhugh, Fifth-Grade Teacher
Reisterstown Elementary School, MD

"The stories and classroom situations throughout the book really helped me visualize how all of this can be put to use. The author definitely practices what she preaches, whether she is teaching in a classroom or teaching through the written word."
-Kathy Tritz-Rhodes, Principal
Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Elementary School, IA

Help students lead with their strengths and gain a deeper understanding of concepts!

Students' learning styles are as diverse as the students themselves, so how can teachers reach all learners according to their strengths?

In this updated edition of the bestseller, Marilee Sprenger demonstrates how to optimize learning by using brain-based strategies that address students' social/emotional, cognitive, and physical learning preferences. The author provides readers with graphic organizers, current research on memory, and new charts to help implement differentiated strategies, and also offers:

• An explanation of how the brain processes, stores, and retains information
• Pre-assessment strategies for each learning style
• "Reflect and Connect" questions to help teachers evaluate their current classroom practice
• Learning and memory tips for students
• Exit cards, or quick assessments of what students have learned

This comprehensive resource provides the tools you need to create a brain-friendly learning environment and to differentiate content, process, and product for your students' diverse learning needs and strengths.

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Boost Your Brain Power Week by Week: 52 Techniques to Make You Smarter

Bill Lucas

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A great help to get used to habits of mastering things 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book give a wide and general training with lots of methods, principles , examples and excercises. I will suggest it as study material in a self-helpgroup.

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Find out how to realize the true potential of your mind and become a better, more productive thinker. Featuring a 52-part, step-by-step program, this smart guide covers all the relevant skills needed to develop concentration, increase learning, enhance memory, find win-win solutions, adapt more easily to change, and boost lateral thinking, creativity, communication, and problem-solving skills. Techniques for quieting the mind help improve focus, while self-evaluation tests and exercises allow readers to monitor their progress and practice as they learn.

Intelligent Memory: Improve the Memory that Makes You Smarter

Barry Gordon, Lisa Berger

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In this groundbreaking and important book, Dr. Barry Gordon, one of the world's leading authorities on memory, and Lisa Berger offer a bold new synthesis of the two essential components of the human mind: intelligence and memory. Gordon and Berger argue that "intelligent memory" is the key to our ability to solve problems, learn from experience, associate, and innovate. As critical to the creation of works of genius as it is to navigating the complexities of daily life, intelligent memory is not an innate gift but a skill that we can learn, hone, and actually improve with age-no matter how old or absentminded we might be.

Gordon and Berger provide a concise, compelling overview of how intelligent memory functions in the brain as the "engine" for dynamic thought, enabling us to focus our attention, make connections, and store and retrieve information. Combining cutting-edge science with practical hands-on guidance and featuring daily exercises and self-administered tests, Intelligent Memory is an essential volume for readers of any age who want to sharpen and expand their intellectual powers.

Total Memory Workout: 8 Easy Steps to Maximum Memory Fitness

Cynthia R. Green

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The fact is that everyone forgets.

It can happen at any age. What most people don't know is that you can exercise your memory just like any other part of your body. For years, Dr. Cynthia Green, director of The Memory Enhancement Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been helping people--from busy parents and CEOs to retirees--achieve maximum memory fitness.

Total memory workout--8 easy steps to maximum memory fitness

In this remarkable book, Dr. Green outlines her simple and effective program to achieve maximum memory fitness in just eight easy lessons. Each lesson focuses on one aspect of memory followed by a series of specific "memorcises" designed to build memory muscle.

Inside you'll find fun and effective ways to:

Remember names and faces
Recall important information at work
Improve your retention of facts in books and technical data
Keep track of appointments and dates
Remember where you put your keys, left your glasses, parked your car

You'll also learn the ten lifestyle factors most likely to lower your memory potential--and how to change them--the best diet to boost your brain power, the truth about "memory enhancing" supplements such as ginkgo biloba, how certain medications may affect memory performance, and when memory lapses are normal and when they indicate an underlying disease.

Unlike other memory programs that rely on tricks and gimmicks, here are practical memory-training techniques that are easy to learn and that really work. Starting today, you can regain a level of memory fitness you never dreamed possible. You have nothing to lose but your car keys...again.

Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You're Starting to Forget

Janet Fogler, Lynn Stern

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a great book on memory 4 out of 5 stars.
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great book! it has helped me to improve my memory and improve scores on tests. it has also helped me to remember peoples names and faces more easily. highly recomended for any one out there that thinks they have a poor memory

Improving Your Memory 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you have ever worried about your lapses of memory, a marvelous little book called, Improving Your Memory, may be just the thing for you. It might allay any fears you have about memory loss as well as provide excellent exercises that teach new strategies for remembering.

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Designed to be used as a self-help manual or as a student text in a memory-improvement course, Improving Your Memory enables adults to understand how memory works, how it changes with age, and how it can be improved with training and practice. In clear, concise language, the authors describe the memory process, discuss conditions that can affect anyone's memory--such as depression, illness, or stress--and offer practical memory improvement techniques. Examples and exercises are included in the workbook-style manual to demonstrate concepts and techniques and their application in daily life.

MEMORY'S GHOST: The Nature Of Memory And The Strange Tale Of Mr. M

Philip J. Hilts

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Fascinating Triumph 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am really amazed that this book seems to have gotten little attention. A coworker left a copy at my job and I picked it up out of curiousity. What a find! Hilts writes well and incorporates a wealth of knowledge into the tale of a man who had his memory removed. Far from a tale of amnesia, this is an exploration of the inner workings of the brain, but even more, it is a testament to the power of memory. Indeed, Hilts makes a strong case that memory is in fact the quality that makes us most human. At times moving and disquieting, this slim work fires the imagination and changes perspectives. I hope, if you've read this review, that you will give this book a shot - it deserves a wider audience.

Memory is part of a Great Adventure! 5 out of 5 stars.
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--Memory's Ghost should be a blessing for anyone (poet, scientist, or general reader) who wants to understand how memory makes us human. In this easily read, occasionally frightening, singularly fascinating, and stimulating book, the author describes the life of Henry M., who lived nearly forty years without the ability to form new memories. To help us understand this condition, the author also gives wonderful descriptions of memory, including a short history of memory (natural and cultural), the types of memory, limits on its reliability, and how and why it might have evolved. After reading it you won't take memory for granted again!

--In 1953, long before the miracles of modern pharmaceutical treatments and current neurological understanding, Mr. M. was given surgery to help stop his suffering intractable epileptic seizures, by removing parts of the brain thought to generate the seizures. Unfortunately, Mr. M.'s surgeon experimentally removed a brain area which "bundled up" the perceptions and symbols of the Total Present Moment and selectively sent them off for storage and future recall. After the operation, Mr.M. could no longer form long-term memories. He could learn new skills, but could not remember learning them. He could not recognize people absent for more than a few seconds, even if they were staff who had known him daily for years. Nevertheless, he clearly retained his humanity. His pleasant personality and even his happiness remained, his IQ stayed normal, he loved TV and conversation, and his memories and capabilities formed before the surgery seemed intact. Since the surgeon who performed the maneuver quickly realized removal of this area should never be repeated, since human lab experiments were unikely to duplicate the situation, and since other conditions (like accidents, strokes, or Alzheimer's) would almost certainly never remove such a specific area, Mr. M. has given a unique perspective for what it means to lose this critical part of the brain and mind (indeed, he soon became one of the most referenced patients in medical literature).

--The author provides some vivid background for memory (Note: it is not intended to directly cover "how-to-improve-your-memory" issues and it does not discuss the tremendous bioethical issues this case raises). He gives several vivid and metaphorical descriptions of memory, all intended to show it is an intensely active, ever-changing, evolving process, and not a static representational recording device (like a tape recorder). The author shows human memory offers an incredible richness and dynamic adaptibility which could never be duplicated by a simple data retrieval device. Memory is not a hard-disc, it's part of a great adventure.

--Of course, a short book with a deep topic will have omissions, but ....
--In summary, I thought this well-written and accessible book was an admirable story both of Mr. M. and of memory -- one of the richest (and most frustrating) parts of our individual and cultural experiences as human beings. It deserves a wide audience.

Editorial Review:

An exploration of the workings of the mind and memory focuses on the case of Henry M., a man who has lived entirely in the present since he had brain surgery to control his epilepsy twenty years ago. 25,000 first printing.

Super Brain: 101 Easy Ways to a More Agile Mind

Carol Vorderman

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International Sudoku expert and bestselling author Carol Vorderman brings her proven and addictive mental workouts to anyone seeking a sharper memory and better concentration skills.

"In childhood and the early years of our adult lives we have information pumped into our brain whether we like it or not and then ... nothing. After formal education and work-related training the brain is left to get on with it and is largely ignored. For much of our lives our brains operate as if on autopilot, thinking and reacting in the same way, even if this isn't getting us what we want. This book can change all that."
—Carol Vorderman, Super Brain

Do you find it hard to put names to faces? Does your mind wander? Do you often lose focus and feel less productive in the afternoon? Do you struggle with simple math? Or walk into a room having forgotten what you meant to do there? You are not alone—and SUPER BRAIN can help. Like the rest of your body, your brain responds to a good workout. Yet few of us take time for mental gymnastics.

Your brain is a stupendous living thing, able to repair itself and to create new pathways of thought and memory. The more you stimulate and exercise your mind by trying out different ways of thinking, the better your powers of concentration, memory, creativity and overall mental agility will become, and remain, regardless of age and natural abilities. But if you don't use it, you lose it. Your brain needs looking after.

Carol Vorderman has degree in Engineering from Cambridge and she has been honored with an MBE for her outstanding contributions to British society. She is one of the most famous women on British television and her bestselling Sudoku puzzle books are proof that we're all eager to reclaim our gray matter and have a good time doing it. SUPER BRAIN is a brain fitness handbook that makes memory training fun, and it incorporates exercises and lifestyle tips, foods, strategies, and habits that will best support a strong, healthy mind. It's not just about improving memory, concentration, and problem-solving abilities-- it's about enhancing all aspects of your mind and changing your life for the better.

Essentials of WMS(r)-III Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series)

Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Alan S. Kaufman, Zona C. Lai

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Really helpful 4 out of 5 stars.
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I had trained on the WMS-R and had to teach a class with the WMS-III. This book, along with the test manual itself, gave me enough tips and tricks to be able to teach the class. I really recommend it.

Editorial Review:

This one-stop guide offers state-of-the-art practical and interpretive guides for the Wechsler Memory Scales, used to interpret intellectual and memory function in dementia patients, substance-abusing patients, and individuals recovering from head trauma, among others.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory: An Introduction

Howard Eichenbaum

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This clear and accessible textbook introduces students to the brain's remarkable capacity for memory. It begins with a history of thinking and research on the biological bases of memory, highlighting discoveries about the brain made in a "Golden Era" of neuroscience around the turn of the 20th century. This is followed by presentation of our current understanding of the neurobiology of memory, organized into sections corresponding to the book's four major themes. The first is Connection, and it considers how memory is based on alterations in the communication between nerve cells. Research on the physiology and biochemistry of neurons has revealed a cascade of molecular events and structural changes that enhance or weaken the connectivity of nerve cells in support of memory. The second theme is Cognition, which considers the psychological structure of memory. Early work on this topic involved controversy over the basic cognitive processes that underlie memory, and modern research has shown that these characterizations reflect distinctions among qualitatively different forms of memory. The third theme is Compartmentalization, the notion that the different forms of memory are accomplished by distinct brian systems. Recent research has revealed parallel memory systems that separately mediate our ability for conscious recollection, our capacity to acquire skills and habits, and our acquisition of emotional attachments and aversions. The fourth theme is Consolidation, the process by which memories are transformed from a labile trace into a permanent store. Scientists have shown that there are two distinct stages in memory consolidation, one involving cellular mechanisms that underlie a fixation of changes in the neuronal connection strengths and the other involving a reorganization and restruction of the circuits that store and retrieve memories. The book assumes little background knowledge from biology or psychology, and is intended as a text for use in undergraduate courses on memory and cognitive science, and for early graduate students in neuroscience, cognitive science, or biology. It encapsulates the major concepts in the field, and makes this area of research accessible to students who pursue a variety of related disciplines.