Description Human learning is studied in a variety of ways. Motor learning is often studied separately from verbal learning. Studies may delve into
anatomy vs function, may view behavioral outcomes or look discretely at the molecular and cellular level of learning. All have merit
but they are dispersed across a wide literature and rarely are the findings integrated and synthesized in a meaningful way. Human Learning:
Biology, Brain, and Neuroscience synthesizes findings across these levels and types of learning and memory investigation.
Divided into
three sections, each section includes a discussion by the editors integrating themes and ideas that emerge across the chapters within
each section. Section 1 discusses general topics in human learning and cognition research, including inhibition, short term and long
term memory, verbal memory, memory disruption, and scheduling and learning. Section 2 discusses cognitive neuroscience aspects of human
learning. Coverage here includes models, skill acquisition, declarative and non declarative memory, age effects on memory, and memory
for emotional events. Section 3 focuses on human motor learning.
This book is suitable for cognitive neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists,
kinesthesiologists, and graduate courses in learning.
Audience
Researchers in experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience.
Contents SECTION I: HUMAN LEARNING AND COGNITION
Introduction: Behavioral Approaches to the Study of Human Learning and Memory.
Chapter 1: The
Role of Inhibition in Learning.
Chapter 2: Short- vs. Long-Term Memory.
Chapter 3: Hemispheric Asymmetries in Verbal Memory.
Chapter
4: Emotional Facilitation and Disruption of Memory.
Chapter 5: Scheduling and Learning.
SECTION II: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Introduction:
Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Memory.
Chapter 6: The Computational Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Memory: Principles
and Models.
Chapter 7: Cognitive Neuroscience of Skill Acquisition.
Chapter 8: Cognitive Neuroscience of Declarative and Nondeclarative
Memory.
Chapter 9: Learning and Memory for Emotional Events.
Chapter 10: Age Differences in Memory: Demands on Cognitive Control and
Association Processes.
Section III: HUMAN MOTOR LEARNING
Introduction: A Survey of Motor Learning Concepts and Findings.
Chapter 11:
Two Aspects of Motor Learning: Learning Movements and Learning Synergies.
Chapter 12:Neuroanatomical Correlates of Motor Skill Learning:
Inferences from Neuroimaginmg to Behavior.
Chapter 13: Mechanisms Underlying Short-Term Motor Learning, Long-Term Motor Learning and
Transfer.
Chapter 14: A Dynamical Framework for Human Skill Learning.
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