Principles of Learning and Memory focuses on the most topical and central phenomena, which are discussed from an interdisciplinary point of view in five sections: formation, organization, consolidation, control, and adaptive specialization of memories. The editors present state-of-the-art reviews that cover the experimental analysis of behavior, as well as the biological basis of learning and memory, and that overcome traditional borders separating disciplines. The chapters present and evaluate core findings of human learning and memory that are obtained in different fields...

Nach dem Prinzip des so genannten Demokratischen Zentralismus unterwarf die SED auch die Wissenschaften in der DDR ihrem Fuhrungsanspruch. Die Parteifunktionare waren jedoch den Fachdisziplinen gegenuber weitgehend orientierungslos geblieben, hatten ihnen nicht Fachvertreter als Wissenschaftler zugearbeitet. Dadurch eroffneten sich den Fachvertretern erhebliche Einflussmoglichkeiten auf die Partei, die bis hinauf in die hochsten Fuhrungsgremien wirkten.
Die Autoren untersuchen das Verhaltnis von Politik und Wissenschaft in der DDR anhand zahlreicher neu erschlossener Dokumente sowie...

Principles of Learning and Memory presents state-of-the-art reviews that cover the experimental analysis of behavior, as well as the biological basis of learning and memory, and that overcome traditional borders separating disciplines. The resulting chapters present and evaluate core findings of human learning and memory that are obtained in different fields of research and on different levels of analysis. The reader will acquire a broad and integrated perspective of human learning and memory based on current approaches in this domain.