The chapters included in this section provide summaries of and glimpses into some of the more active foci of contemporary cognitive neuroscience of memory. Six chapters deal solely or primarily with human memory, whereas three others focus on work done with nonhuman primates.  Collectively, they illustrate the variety of methods and procedures used.

"Domain Specificity in Cognitive Systems"; Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, Seamas P. O Scalaidhe, and Matthew V. Chafee...

"Learning and Memory in the Inferior Temporal Cortex of the Macaque"; Cynthia A. Erickson, Bharathi Jagadeesh, and Robert Desimone...

"Memory for Objects in Nonhuman Primates"; Elisabeth A. Murray...

"The Medial Temporal Lobe, the Hippocampus, and the Memory Systems of the Brain"; Larry R. Squire and Barbara J.  Knowlton...

"The Anatomical Bases of Memory"; Hans J. Markowitsch...

"Psychopharmacological Approaches to Human Memory"; H. Valerie Curran...

"Memory Retrieval: An Electrophysiological Perspective"; Michael D.  Rugg and Kevin Allan...

"Neuroimaging of Memory"; Randy L. Buckner...

"Memory without Remembering and Remembering without Memory: Implicit and False Memories"; Daniel L. Schacter and Tim Curran