Winner of the 2019 British Psychological Society Book Award - Academic Monograph
Elisabeth Murray, National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Head of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Steven Wise, National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Former Chief of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Chief of the Section on Neurophysiology of the Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, and Kim Graham, University of Cardiff, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Elisabeth A. (Betsy) Murray was raised with her three brothers in Syracuse, New York. She received a B.S. in Biology from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas. Dr. Murray is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, of the American Psychological Association, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She currently heads the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Steven P. Wise received a B.A. in Biology from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. from Washington University (St. Louis) in Biology. After a brief period of postdoctoral study, he had a 30-year career in neurophysiology at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda and Poolesville, Maryland. Dr Wise served as Chief of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Chief of the Section on Neurophysiology of the Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience.
Kim S. Graham received a B.Sc. In Biological Sciences from Edinburgh University, followed by a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in Psychology. She subsequently worked as a research scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences for 12 years, prior to moving to Cardiff University in 2007, where she is currently a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Capitalizing on major advances in our understanding of both memory
and brain evolution, this book provides the first - and long
overdue - account of memory systems placed in an evolutionary
context. The result is a captivating and comprehensive survey of
two histories, the history of the brain and the history of ideas
about memory, which culminates in a new and provocative proposal
for the origin of memory. Anyone interested in the brain and
behaviour, evolution, or the history of science will find The
Evolution of Memory Systems a stimulating read.
*Morgan Barense, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in
Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of
Toronto, Canada*
The authors convincingly demonstrate that memory systems, and
perhaps all neural systems, are best understood in terms of when
and why they evolved to meet challenges of the past. Thus, this is
a book for those interested in how brains work, and how they
differ. This impressive book is like no other in its scope on the
successive evolution of memory systems from early vertebrates to
present-day humans. I want all my students and co-workers to read
it.
*Jon H. Kaas, Distinguished Centennial Professor of Psychology,
Vanderbilt University, USA*
A critical component of defining who we are requires an
understanding of our individual past experiences and how they are
represented in the brain, as well as how our brain, and in
particular memory circuits, evolved in mammals. This book is a
tour-de-force on the evolution of memory systems in mammals. It
provides a wonderful historical perspective, and an extensive
comparative analysis. While the major thrust is to understand human
capabilities, particularly circuitry involved in memory, the
authors painstakingly review the literature and clearly articulate
that these systems did not evolve de novo in humans, but that a
basic plan was present in our earliest ancestors. This type of
discussion is rarely found in a neuroscience community entrenched
in studies of single animal models. Kudos to the authors for
writing the most comprehensive and interesting text currently
available on this topic.
*Leah Krubitzer, MacArthur Fellow, Professor of Psychology,
University of California, Davis*
Through their combined evolutionary and neuroscience approach the
authors beautifully reveal the building blocks of memory systems
that combine to produce the complexities of cognition in the human
brain.
*Trevor W. Robbins CBE, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and
Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK*
This is an important book for several reasons. First, there is the
unique way that the authors formulate their proposals within an
evolutionary context, explaining what makes memory special in
mammals, in primates, and in humans. Second, their survey of the
cognitive neuroscience of memory is guided by an exciting and
provocative new taxonomy of memory systems that takes the reader
far beyond the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe.
*Matthew Rushworth, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department
of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK*
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