Henry L. Roediger

An extremely valuable book. Gave me a big-picture understanding of the many aspects related to memory. I did not understand every chapter in full detail, as my expertise is more related to Cognitive Science, coming from a Cognitive Load Theory background. However, I did get a significant amount of valuable insight from the book.
It's likely a source I will reread when I have more knowledge about neuroscience.

The most interesting insight I got from the book is that memories do not even exist until they are retrieved; i.e., existing only is the engram, memory trace: the long-lasting physiological changes of an experience or encoding event.

Furthermore, the book confirmed my suspicions that initial learning (the encoding process) should be optimized with regards to the use case of the knowledge, thus making the assessments and tests given at schools, primarily high school, quite useless as the form in which we will use our learned knowledge is usually not on paper but more so in the real world, in practice.… (lisätietoja)