The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

8. Memory: The Mind’s Growth

  1. Memories are Made of This
  2. The Reconstructive Memory
  3. Reconstructing And Making
  4. Cognitive Maps
  5. The Partitioning of Memory
  6. Types of Memory
  7. The Rememberer
  8. Confusing the Self
  9. Categories
  10. Prototype Theory
  11. Fuzzy Concepts
  12. The Origin of Categories
  13. Conceptual Holism
  14. The Mind's Growth
  15. Constructivism
  16. From The Social To The Personal
  17. Some Nativism
  18. Adulthood
  19. The Philosophical Baby
  20. The Ratchet Effect
  21. The Evolution of Memories

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Baddeley, Alan: YOUR MEMORY (MacMillan, 1982)

Baddeley, Alan: WORKING MEMORY (Clarendon Press, 1986)

Baddeley, Alan: HUMAN MEMORY (Simon & Schuster, 1990)

Barsalou, Lawrence: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992)

Bartlett, Frederic Charles: REMEMBERING (1932) (Cambridge Univ Press, 1967)

Broadbent, Donald: PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION (Pergamon, 1958)

Broadbent, Donald: DECISION AND STRESS (Academic Press, 1971)

Bruner Jerome: A STUDY OF THINKING (Wiley, 1956)

Campbell, Joseph: PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY: THE MASKS OF GODS (Viking, 1959)

Collins, Alan: THEORIES OF MEMORY (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993)

Crowder, Robert: PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING  AND MEMORY (Erlbaum, 1976)

Eichenbaum, Howard: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MEMORY (Oxford Univ Press, 2002)

Erikson, Eric: IDENTITY AND THE LIFE CYCLE (1959)

Estes, William: CLASSIFICATION AND COGNITION (Oxford University Press, 1994)

Fauconnier, Gilles: MENTAL SPACES (MIT Press, 1994)

Greene, Robert: HUMAN MEMORY (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992)

Gopnik, Alison: THE PHILOSOPHICAL BABY (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)

Greenfield, Patricia: LANGUAGE, TOOLS, AND BRAIN (1991)

James, William: PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY (1890)

Johnson, Mark: The Body in The Mind (University of Chicago Press, 1987)

Karmiloff-Smith Annette: BEYOND MODULARITY (MIT Press, 1992)

Keil Frank: CONCEPTS, KINDS AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT  (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Lakoff, George: WOMEN, FIRE AND DANGEROUS THINGS (Univ of Chicago Press, 1987)

Lenneberg, Eric: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE (Wiley, 1967)

Parker, Sue & McKinney, Michael: The origins of intelligence (2000)

Piaget, Jean: EQUILIBRATION OF COGNITIVE STRUCTURES (University of Chicago Press, 1985)

Reiser,  Morton: MEMORY IN MIND AND BRAIN (Basic, 1990)

Roediger, Henry: VARIETIES OF MEMORY AND CONSCIOUSNESS (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989)

Rosch, Eleanor: COGNITION AND CATEGORIZATION (Erlbaum, 1978)

Schacter, Daniel & Tulving Endel: MEMORY SYSTEMS (MIT Press, 1994)

Schacter, Daniel: SEARCHING FOR MEMORY (Basic Books, 1996)

Schanks, David: HUMAN MEMORY: A READER  (Oxford Univ Press, 1997)

Semon, Richard: DIE MNEME (1904)

Tolman, Edward: PURPOSIVE BEHAVIOR IN ANIMALS AND MEN (1932)

Tulving, Endel: ORGANIZATION OF MEMORY (Academic Press, 1972)

Tulving, Endel:  ELEMENTS OF EPISODIC MEMORY (Oxford Univ Press, 1983)

Tulving, Endel:  OXFORD HANDBOOK OF MEMORY (Oxford Univ Press, 2000)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS (Macmillan, 1953)

Huizinga, Johan: HOMO LUDENS (Tjeenk Willink, 1938)

MacLean, Paul: THE TRIUNE BRAIN IN EVOLUTION (Plenum Press, 1990)

Panksepp, Jaak: AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE (Oxford Univ Press, 1998)

Vygotsky, Lev: MIND IN SOCIETY (Harvard Univ Press, 1978)