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Text: Baddeley, A. D. Human Memory: Theory and Practice (Revised edition). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.

LEC # TOPICS
1 Course Introduction
2 Overview of Memory Readings: Ch. 1
3 Approaches to Studying Human Memory from Ebbinghaus to Meuroimaging
4 Short-term / Working memory I, Sensory Memory, Modal Model of Memory
5 Short-term / Working Memory II, Tripartite Model, Verbal Working Memory
6 Short-term / Working Memory III, Visuo-spatial Working Memory
7 Cognitive and Executive Control
8 Semantic Memory Readings: Ch. 13
9 MIDTERM I
10 Episodic Memory: Encoding I Principles of Episodic Learning
11 Episodic Memory: Encoding II Neuroimaging and Encoding
12 Episodic Memory: Retrieval I Principles of Episodic Retrieval Models of Episodic Retrieval
13 Episodic Memory: Retrieval II Forgetting
14 Episodic Memory: Retrieval III Recollection, Familiarity, and Source Memory
DUE: Paper Draft
15 Episodic Memory: Retrieval IV Autobiographical and Prospective Memory
16 Episodic Memory: Retrieval V False/Illusory Memory
17 Metamemory and Memento Readings: Metcalfe (1996)
18 MIDTERM II
19 Memory and Amnesia Anterograde and Retrograde
20 Nondeclarative Memory I Forms of Priming
21 Nondeclarative Memory II Neural Bases of Priming
22 Nondeclarative Memory III Conditioning
23 Nondeclarative Memory IV Perceptual, Motor, and Cognitive Skill
24 Emotion and Memory
DUE: Paper
25 Memory across the Lifespan Memory and Aging
26 FINAL Review Session
FINAL EXAM