Memory, Imprinting and the Brain: An Inquiry into Mechanisms

Oxford Psychology

by Gabriel Horn

Ranging from behavioral to molecular levels of analysis, this informative study presents the results of recent research into the biochemistry and neural mechanisms of imprinting. Horn discusses some of the difficulties that researchers have encountered in analyzing the neural basis of memory
and describes ways in which these difficulties have been overcome through the analysis of memories underlying habituation and imprinting. He also considers the biochemical consequences of imprinting and its cerebral localization, and examines the relationships between human and animal
memory.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published December 19, 1985