Scott D. Slotnick is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston College, Massachusetts, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognitive Neuroscience, and author of the book Controversies in Cognitive Neuroscience (2012). He employs multiple cognitive neuroscience techniques to investigate the brain mechanisms underlying memory, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
1. Types of memory and brain regions of interest
2. The tools of cognitive neuroscience
3. Brain regions associated with long-term memory
4. Brain timing associated with long-term memory
5. Long-term memory failure
6. Working memory
7. Implicit memory
8. Memory and other cognitive processes
9. Explicit memory and disease
10. Long-term memory in animals
11. The future of memory research
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