Learning and Memory

Learning and Memory is a lively introduction to modern concepts in cognitive psychology, focusing on the processes of human memory and learning. Donald A. Norman describes this book as a “tour of selected problems in the study of learning and memory, problems that have absorbed my own efforts for a good many years.”
Learning and Memory is an invaluable supplement for introductory courses in learning, cognition, and perception. Requiring no technical background to be understood, the book provides a foundation for understanding how humans process and organize information gathered by the senses.
Professor Norman states that “memory does not store things in simple cubicles... The mind insists on finding meaning and patterns, and then using them to help recover and reconstruct what it attempts to remember.” Learning and Memory describes many of the mind’s processes, including sensory, primary, and secondary memory, information processing, semantic networks, and the intricacies of skilled performance. The book concludes with an analysis of the interplay between humans and the complex systems, including the computer, with which they interact.