Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory

Hajime Otani, Bennett L. Schwartz, Hajime Otani, Bennett L. Schwartz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429801563
• Subtopic: Applied Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory presents a collection of chapters on methodology used by researchers in investigating human memory. Understanding the basic cognitive function of human memory is critical in a wide variety of fields, such as clinical psychology, developmental psychology, education, neuroscience, and gerontology, and studying memory has become particularly urgent in recent years due to the prominence of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's. However, choosing the most appropriate method of research is a daunting task for most scholars. This book explores the methods that are currently available in various areas of human memory research and serves as a reference manual to help guide readers' own research. Each chapter is written by prominent researchers and features cutting-edge research on human memory and cognition, with topics ranging from basic memory processes to cognitive neuroscience to further applications. The focus here is not on the "what," but the "how"—how research is best conducted on human memory.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 History of Methods in Memory Science: From Ebbinghaus to fMRI
• 2 Dependent Measures in Memory Research: From Free Recall to Recognition
• 3 Measures of Forgetting
• 4 Accuracy and Bias in Episodic Memory
• 5 Response Time Measures in Memory Research
• 6 Methods of Studying Working Memory
• 7 Methods of Studying Text: Memory, Comprehension, and Learning
• 8 The Methodology of Metamemory and Metacomprehension
• 9 Research Methods for Studying the Emotion-Memory Relationship
• 10 Methods for Studying Memory Differences Between Young and Older Adults
• 11 Discovering Memory: Methods in the Study of Memory Development
• 12 Assessing Autobiographical Memory Disruptions in Psychiatric Populations
• 13 Methods of Studying Memory Without Awareness
• 14 Methods of Studying False Memory
• 15 Methods of Studying Eyewitness Memory
• 16 The Assessment of Autobiographical Memory: An Overview of Behavioral Methods
• 17 Methods of Studying Prospective Memory
• 18 Face Memory
• 19 Challenges in Music Memory Research
• 20 A User’s Guide to Collecting Data Online
• 21 Neuropsychological Methods in Memory Research
• 22 Applications of Functional MRI in Memory Research
• 23 From the Laboratory to the Classroom: Challenges and Solutions for Conducting Memory Research in Educational Contexts
• 24 Methods of Studying Individual Differences in Memory
• Index