Connectionists: Seeking Recent Research Advances to cite for new "Teaching Learning & Memory" E-Newsletter

[Mark A. Gluck]

Dear Learning & Memory Colleagues:

With the 2nd edition of our undergraduate textbook, Learning and 
Memory: From Brain to Behavior scheduled to appear this summer in 
time for Fall 2012 adoptions, Worth Publishers and I will soon be 
launching a new and free e-Newsletter entitled, "Teaching Learning 
and Memory". This will be emailed out twice-a-year by Worth 
Publishers to anyone who teaches in this field (regardless of what 
textbook they use).

The e-newsletter will have several short features with material 
designed to assist teachers in identifying and presenting new and 
exciting material in their undergraduate courses. These will include

* Learning and Memory in Everyday Life

* Memory and Brain Health

* Teaching Tips for Classroom Activities (with guest contributions 
each issue, the first to be from Bob Calin-Jageman of Dominican 
University)

* Recent Advances in Learning and Memory Research

The latter section will include citations (and pubmed links) for 4 to 
6 papers published in the past year which are both (a) important 
advances in the field and (b) compelling and comprehensible to 
undergraduate students. It is for this section that I turn to you 
colleagues for suggestions of appropriate articles. If you can think 
of any articles published in 2011 or 2012 that you think would fit 
the bill (including your own papers; false modesty not required), 
could you email me the full citation and a short 2 or 3 sentence 
jargon-free precis of what it showed and why this is important and 
interesting for undergraduates to know about.

Naturally, suggestions/nominations for articles for future issues 
will be welcome and appreciated in the months and years to come.

Thanks, Mark

PS. To be sent a complimentary instructor's review copy of the new 
edition as soon as it is ready in late June, please email our editor, 
Daniel DeBonis <ddebonis at worthpub.com> with your name, address, and 
key information about your course (title, enrollment, etc.). Dan can 
also add you to the mailing list for the e-newsletter as well if you 
wish.

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Dr. Mark A. Gluck,  Professor 
   Director, Rutgers Memory Disorders Project 
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience                           
Rutgers University                                 Phone:  (973) 353-3668/3298
197 University Ave.                                    
Newark, New Jersey  07102                   Email:  gluck at pavlov.rutgers.edu

   Lab:  http://www.gluck.edu
   Memory Loss & Brain Newsletter: http://www.memorylossonline.com


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