Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references.

Memory is a party -- The ancient "art of memory" -- Rote memorization and a science of forgetting -- Sensory memory-- brief traces of the past -- The conveyor belt of working memory -- Encoding-- our gateway into long-term memory -- Episodic and semantic long-term memory -- The secret passage-- implicit memory -- From procedural memory to habit -- When memory systems battle-- habits vs. goals -- Sleep and the consolidation of memories -- Infant and early childhood memory -- Animal cognition and memory -- Mapping memory in the brain -- Neural network models -- Learning from brain damage and amnesias -- The many challenges of Alzheimer's disease --That powerful glow of warm familiarity -- Déjà vu and the illusion of memory -- Recovered memories or false memories? -- Mind the gaps! memory as reconstruction -- How we can choose what's important to remember -- Aging, memory and cognitive transition -- The monster at the end of the book.

Professor Steve Joordens, University of Toronto, lecturer.