On this page you’ll find a number of resources for understanding the key concepts of memory, including types of memory, memory failures, mnemonics, and more. If I’ve missed a good resource, please share it in the comments section!

General Resources

Memory Key Terms List

Memory Pinterest page

OpenStax Memory Chapter

Master Introductory Psychology Volume 2 (Amazon link)

General Video Resources

Specific Concepts

• The Atkinson-Shifrin 3-box information-processing model – Wikipedia page
• Sensory Memory – Wikipedia page
  • George Sperling – Wikipedia page
  • The information available in brief visual presentation – Sperling, 1960
  • Video demonstration of Sperling’s iconic memory procedure
• Short-Term Memory – Wikipedia page 
  • George Miller Wikipedia page
  • The Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two paper (Miller, 1956)
  • Chunking – Wikipedia page
• Long-Term Memory – Wikipedia page
• Schacter’s “Seven Sins of Memory”
  • Transience, Absentmindedness, Blocking, Misattribution, Suggestibility, Bias, Persistence – Wikipedia summary page
  • The Seven Sins of Memory – Daniel Schacter (Amazon link)
  • Schacter lecture video
  • My Quora answer to “How can I make myself be less forgetful?”
  • Elizabeth Loftus on Misattribution and Suggestibility
  • Daniel Schacter – Suggestibility – Scientific American Frontiers
  • List of Memory Biases – Wikipedia
  • Persistence
    • Seared in our memories – 9/11 article (APA)
    • You Have No Idea What Happened – The New Yorker
• Autobiographical Memory
  • In a Perpetual Present (Wired)
  • Hyperthymesia (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory) – Wikipedia
  • A Case of Unusual Autobiographical Remembering (Parker, Cahill, & McGough, 2006)
• Prospective Memory – Wikipedia page
• Transactive Memory – Wikipedia page
  • The Internet Has Become an External Hard Drive for Our Memories (Scientific American)
  • My Quora answer to “What is Transactive Memory?”
• Cryptomnesia – Wikipedia page
  • The Science of “Accidental” Joke-Stealing and Plagiarism
• Working Memory – Wikipedia page
• Implicit Memory – Wikipedia page
• Mood-Dependent Memory – Wikipedia page
• Hippocampus – Wikipedia page
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• Patient H.M. Wikipedia page
  • The Brain That Couldn’t Remember (NYT)
  • Still Charting Memory’s Depths – Brenda Milner article (NYT)
  • Video summary of H.M.’s case
  • Clive Wearing video
• Patient E.P.
  • Remember This (National Geographic) 
  • Scientific American Frontiers video
• The Neuroscience of Memory – Eleanor Maguire

• Long-Term Potentiation – Wikipedia page
  • Detailed video explanation – Carleton University
  • N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) – Wikipedia page
• Hermann Ebbinghaus
  • Wikipedia page
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  • Serial Position Effect – Wikipedia page
• Mnemonic Strategies
  • Levels of Processing – Wikipedia page
  • The Testing Effect – Wikipedia page
  • The Method of Loci – Wikipedia page
  • An Ancient Way to Improve Memory – NYT
  • Andi Bell teaches the Method of Loci video
  • Joshua Foer – Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do
  • Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer (Amazon link)
  • Ben Pridmore Speed Cards World Record (2009) video
  • How to Develop a Brilliant Memory – Dominic O’Brien (Amazon link)
  • The Mind of a Mnemonist – A. L. Luria (Amazon link)

Other Resources

No One Has a Photographic Memory (Slate)

In Search of Memory – Eric Kandel (Amazon link)

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