Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • The Physiological Basis of Memory
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Chapter 1. Protein Synthesis and Memory
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Chemical Changes Associated with Learning
  • III. Effect of Inhibitors of RNA and Protein Synthesis on Learning
  • IV. The Search for a Molecular Code of Memory
  • V. Modern Conceptions of the Role of Proteins in Learning
  • VI. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 2. Facilitation of Memory Consolidation
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Pretraining versus Posttraining TreatmentsIII. Time Dependency
  • IV. Memory Modulation
  • V. Attenuation of Experimentally Induced Amnesia
  • VI. On the Nature of Specificity
  • VII. Peripheral Mechanisms
  • VIII. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Cellular Neurophysiological Studies of Learning
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Nonassociative Learning: Habituation and Sensitization
  • III. Associative Learning: Introduction
  • IV. Vertebrate Studies of Associative Learning
  • V. Invertebrate Studies of Associative Learning
  • VI. Conclusions
  • III. Production of Temporal Lobe Amnesia in Experimental AnimalsIV. The Frontal Lobes and Memory
  • V. The Effects of Frontal Lesions in Humans
  • VI. A Final Synthesis
  • VII. Summary
  • References
  • Chapter 6. The Neurology of Memory: The Case for Correspondence between the Findings for Human and Nonhuman Primate
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Description and Etiology of Amnesia
  • III. Two Forms of Amnesia
  • IV. What Has Human Diencephalic and Bitemporal Amnesia Taught Us about the Nature of the Impairment?
  • V. What Has Human Diencephalic and Bitemporal Amnesia Taught Us about the Regions That Are Affected?VI. Studies of Monkeys with Hippocampal Lesions
  • VII. The Brain Regions Critical to Amnesia: Two Hypotheses
  • VIII. The Behavioral Tasks Used to Study Memory in Monkeys: Some Are Sensitive to Human Amnesia, but Others Are Not
  • IX. Summary
  • References
  • Chapter 7. Self-Stimulation
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Normal Function of the Neural Substrate for Self-Stimulation of the MFB
  • III. Identifying the Substrate
  • IV. Conclusions
  • References