Memory from A to Z: Keywords, Concepts and Beyond
Memory from A to Z: Keywords, Concepts and Beyond
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从头到尾的记忆：关键词、概念及其他
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10.1108/09504120310466090
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2003
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M. Guha
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M. Guha
埃德加艾伦·坡说，一篇文章的最佳长度应该是能够在一次坐着的时候轻松地阅读和消化的长度（坡，1846）。当然，坡是在一个更悠闲的时代写作的，一个受过教育的读者在需要停下来休息之前，可以被期望犁过几页文本。许多现代学生在文化上与电视遥控器相适应，而不是苗条的八开，即使是认真的作者写的严肃的教科书现在也倾向于被分成一口大小的块和盒子。《参考评论》的平均书评量是我们大多数人能够一口气读完的最大限度。备受尊敬的神经学家亚丁·杜代（Yadin Dudai）试图在这本非凡的书中严格遵循爱伦·坡的格言。他成功地写了一系列140篇微型论文，严格按照字母顺序排列，涵盖了记忆科学研究和相关研究领域的整个范围。莫兹利医院食堂里的一桌临床心理学家对这本书表示欢迎，他们没有发现任何严重的遗漏，除了暂时需要对睡眠的作用进行更多的讨论，而不是在“状态依赖学习”的条目中。每个条目由两三个简短的定义组成，然后是几页的文本，充满了信息，以及一些精选的联想术语，以拓宽读者的想法。字母顺序的任意性意味着交叉引用必须非常彻底。我能找到的唯一错误是交叉引用了LTP，而LTP应该是长时程增强。分散在文本中的参考书目在最后被收集成一个强大的66页的记忆参考书目。
Edgar Allen Poe said that the optimal length of a piece of writing should be such that it can be comfortably read and digested in a single sitting (Poe, 1846). Poe was, of course, writing in a more leisurely age when an educated reader could be expected to plough through several pages of text before needing to pause and recuperate. Many modern students are so culturally attuned to the TV remote control, rather than to the slim octavo, that even serious textbooks by earnest authors tend nowadays to be divided into bite‐sized chunks and boxes. The average Reference Reviews book review is as much as most of us are expected to be able to manage to read at one go without taking a break.Yadin Dudai, a highly respected neuroscientist, has attempted to follow Poe’s dictum strictly in this extraordinary book. He has managed to write a series of 140 miniature essays, arranged in strict alphabetical order, covering the whole range of the scientific study of memory and related areas of study. A tableful of clinical psychologists in the Maudsley Hospital canteen greeted the book with delight, and could not come up with any serious omissions except, tentatively, the need for more discussion on the role of sleep than is found in the entry on “State‐dependent learning”. Each entry consists of two or three brief definitions, followed by a couple of pages of text, packed with information, and a few selected associative terms to broaden the reader’s ideas. The arbitrariness of alphabetical order means that the cross‐referencing has to be very thorough. The only error in this that I have been able to find is a cross‐reference to LTP that should have been to long‐term potentiation. The bibliographic references scattered through the text are collected into a formidable 66‐page bibliography on memory at the end.