Summary and Objectives

• Explain key concepts such as memory, gist, false memories, reading, whole-word encoding, math, and learning disabilities.
• Talk about why this matters by examining how difference in academic ability arise.

Links

• Someone elses’ IP Lecture notes.
• Types of Memory
• A Robot that recognizes you tone of voice!
• Fast Company article on a PBS special about the “The new science of manipulating memories.”
• Child’s Memory Studies at Loyola
• More Memory Studies at Missouri-Columbia
• Memory Strategies for Kids.
• More Memory Strategies.
• Infantile Amnesia
• Effects of Repeated Questioning on Eyewitness Testimony
• Eyewitness testimony
• More Explanations for Infantile Amnesia
• Reading Difficulties