Annotated Bibliography

Friedman, S., Klivington, K. & Peterson, R. (Eds.). (1986). The Brain, Cognition, and Education. New York: Academic Press. The present textbook hardly touches biological and neurological aspects of information processing at all. The authors of the chapters in this text provide a good, understandable introduction to these topics.

Higbee, K.L. (1993). Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It. (2nd Ed.) New York: Paragon House. This book offers useful guidelines that are based on the principles discussed in this chapter for improving one's memory. Readers can improve their own memory skills while learning more about what they can do to help their students remember information more effectively.

Sylwester, R. & Choo, J.-Y. (1992). What Brain Research Says about Paying Attention. Educational Leadership, 50, 71-75, This article presents a scientifically sophisticated yet easily understood discussion of the neurological processes that underlie the role that attention plays in human information processing.

Mastropieri, M.A. & Scruggs, T.E. (1991). Teaching Students Ways to Remember: Strategies for Learning Mnemonically. Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books. This book offers suggestions for using mnemonic strategies to enable students to remember basic skills, concepts, facts, and systems of facts. It includes numerous good examples.

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• Introduction
• Information Processing
• Sensory Register
• Working Memory
• Long-Term Memory
• Recalling Information
• Computers and Human Information Processing
• Forgetting
• Mnemonic Strategies
• Strengthening Memory and Minimizing Forgetting
• Transfer of Learning
• What Teachers Can Do to Improve Information Processing
• What Parents Can Do to Improve Information Processing
• What Students Can Do to Improve Information Processing
• Summary
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