1st Edition
Maximizing Children’s Memory Potential Science-Based Strategies for Learning Success
Chapter 1: Overview and Introduction
Chapter 2: The Basics: Getting to know your brain by understanding neurons and neuronal networks
Chapter 3: Analogies to explain memory
Chapter 4: What are the differences between short-term memory, working memory and long-term memory?
Chapter 5: What is attention and what does it have to do with remembering?
Chapter 6: Is forgetting always a bad thing?
Chapter 7: What is metamemory and how does it change in childhood?
Chapter 8: Myths of memory and attention
Chapter 9: What can you do to improve your own memory and attention?
Chapter 10: Final Conclusions and Take-Home Messages
Glossary of terms
Recommended resources for interested readers
Biography
Emily M. Elliott, PhD., is a Professor of Psychology at Louisiana State University. Throughout her career, she has studied the theoretical underpinnings of working memory and attention, as well as how attention and memory interact. She has also studied sounds, which can be either helpful or hurtful to learning, depending on the situation, and the benefits of expertise afforded by musical training. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Louisiana State University. She continued her education and earned a Master of Arts degree in Experimental Psychology and a PhD in Cognition and Neuroscience from the University of Missouri, Columbia. She began her faculty career as an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University (LSU), and she was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor. She serves as the Principal Investigator of the Elliott Attention Recall and Sounds (EARS) lab, training undergraduate and graduate students at LSU. She has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and is a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society and of Division 3 of the American Psychological Association.
Emily M. Elliott https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2405-990X
