Overview

Research relevant to the topic of distinctiveness and memory dates back over 100 years and boasts a literature of well over 2,000 published articles. Throughout this history, numerous theories of distinctiveness and memory have been offered and subsequently refined. There has, however, never been a book that brings this rich history together with the latest research. This volume is the first to present an historical overview, the results of the current research, and several new theories on distinctiveness and memory. Each chapter contains a review of the relevant literature and latest research on its topic. The book includes sections that cover basic theory and behavioral research on distinctiveness, bizarreness effects, distinctiveness effects on implicit memory, the development of distinctiveness across the lifespan, distinctiveness in social context, and the neuroscience of distinctiveness and memory. In the concluding chapter, Fergus Craik offers his current perspective on distinctiveness and evaluates the various other theories of distinctiveness presented in the volume. Distinctiveness and Memory will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in neuroscience and cognitive, developmental, and social psychology.

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Author:   R. Reed Hunt (, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA) ,  James B. Worthen (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Southeastern Louisiana University, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.819kg
ISBN:  

9780195169669

ISBN 10:   0195169662
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   27 April 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part One: Basic Issues 1: R. Reed Hunt: The Concept of Distinctiveness in Memory Research 2: James S. Nairne: Modeling Distinctiveness: Implications for general memory theory 3: Stephen R. Schmidt: Emotion, Significance, Distinctiveness, and Memory 4: Mark A. McDaniel and Lisa Geraci: Encoding and Retrieval Processes in Distinctiveness Effects: Toward an Integrative Framework 5: Daniel L. Schacter and Amy L. Wiseman: Reducing Memory Errors: The Distinctiveness Heuristic 6: Daniel J. Burns: Assessing Distinctiveness: Measures of Item-Specific and Relational Processing Part Two: Bizareness 7: James B. Worthen: Resolution of Discrepant Memory Strengths: An Explanation of the Effects of Bizareness on Memory 8: Denise Davidson: Memory for Bizarre and Other Unusual Events: Evidence from Script Research Part Three: Distinctiveness and Implicit Memory Tests 9: Neil W. Mulligan: Conceptual Implicit Memory and the Item-specific--Relational Distinction 10: Lisa Geraci and Suparna Rajarm: The Distinctiveness Effect in Explicit and Implicit Memory Part Four: Distinctiveness and Memory Across the Life Span 11: Mark L. Howe: Distinctiveness in Children's Memory 12: Rebekah E. Smith: Adult Age Differences in Episodic Memory: Item-specific, Relational, and Distinctive Processing Part Five: Distinctiveness in the Social Context 13: Brian Mullen and Carmen Pizzuto: The Effects of Social Distinctiveness: The Phenomenology of Being in a Group 14: Susan Coats and Eliot R. Smith: Distinctiveness and Memory: A Comparison of the Social and Cognitive Literatures 15: Monica Fabiani: Part Six: The Neuroscience of Distinctiveness and Memory 16: Pascale Michelon and Abraham Z. Snyder: Neural Correlates of Incongruity 17: Mark M. Kishiyama and Andrew P. Yonelinas: Stimulus Novelty Effects on Recognition Memory: Behavioral Properties and Neuroanatomical Substrates Part Seven: Denoument 18: Endel Tulving and R. Shayna Rosenbaum: What do Explanations of the Distinctiveness Effect Need to Explain? 19: Fergus I.M. Craik: Distinctiveness and Memory: Comments and a Point of View

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...a necessary read for all cognitive psychologists studying memory phenomena. As it is demonstrated in the book, distinctiveness effects are not isolated from other memory phenemena and therefore caanot be ignored. ... Overall, the goals to report recent developments in distinctiveness research and to advance theory through the exchange of ideas seem to have been achieved. Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol 21

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R. Reed Hunt received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico and taught at Dartmouth College, Furman University, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro, before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Much of his research has been devoted to characterizing the psychological processes that are distinctiveness in memory. James B. Worthen received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology with emphases in cognition and social cognition from Texas Tech University in 1995. Dr. Worthen has held positions at Michigan Technological University and the University of Texas at Brownsville. He now teaches and conducts research at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he also serves as the Director of the Graduate Program in Psychology.

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