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“How we Learn” MemoryLifter. 11 Oct. 2005.  25 Oct. 2005

<http://www.memorylifter.com/learning/learning-tools.html>

While this website has some interesting information about memory and learning, it is a commercial site with the goal of promoting its product, the MemoryLifter.  Despite a couple of good diagrams and some useful information, the majority of the site is dedicated to the products they provide.  There is a link for contacting the site creators but it doesn’t have any information other than a phone number and email address.  There is no page with “About Us” information and no references are provided for the information on memory and learning.  I would not use this site in my research paper unless I could corroborate the information with another more trustworthy source. 

I accessed this resource through Google.com.  The search terms I used were memory and learning tools. 

Levin, Daniel T., Daniel J. Simons; and Bonnie L. Angelone. “Memory for centrally

attended changing objects in an incidental real-world change detection

paradigm.” British Journal of Psychology. 93.3 (2002), 289-302.  Social Sciences

FullText.  W. H. Wilson.  Dominican University, Rebecca Crown Lib., River

Forest, IL.  25 Oct. 2005.  <http://ezproxy.dom.edu/login?url=http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=OMNI>

This article discusses three experiments that were conducted by the authors exploring the role of change blindness as it occurs with attended objects – that is, the object they were paying attention to.  The article includes discussion of the roles of memory and visual perception on detecting change in a scene, photographic lineup, and even with a conversation partner.  Written for a scholarly audience, the article presents some difficulty but, overall, is manageable for the general educated person.   The authors, affiliated with Kent State University and Harvard University, present the research in terms of each experiment conducted, their methodology, findings, discussion and results.  A literature review is provided, as well as an extensive bibliography.  The summary and general discussion provided a useful overview of the conclusions drawn by the authors and could be used in the research paper to support a conclusion. 

I found this article through the Social Science Fulltext database.  I searched using the keywords visual perception and memory. 

Squire, Larry R. and Eric R. Kandel.  Memory: From Mind to Molecules.  New York:

Scientific American Library, 1999. 

Geared for a broad audience with an interest in science but nonscientific backgrounds, this book provides a “rudimentary background” for the biology and cognitive psychology involved in studies of memory.  The authors intended this book to be an overview of what is currently happening in the scholarship and research in psychology and neuroscience.  The text is peppered with illustrations, graphs, charts and models to illustrate the authors’ points and contains an extensive bibliography as well as a comprehensive index.  The authors’ credentials include a PhD. for Larry R. Squire, a professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology and an M.D. for Eric R. Kandel, founder of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University in New York.  Topics include: “molecules for short-term memory” and “priming, perceptual learning, and emotional learning.”  Chapters of this book may be helpful in writing my research paper for providing background information on perception and scientific explanations of how memory works. 

I found this book in the Dominican University online catalog.  I searched for the term memory in the Title field and sorted the results by most recently published.  I found a couple of books that looked good in the catalog but this one was the most useful once I got to the shelf. 

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