The creation and consolidation of a memory can rest on the integration of any number of disparate features and contexts. This book offers an overview of one of the hot spots of memory research: binding. It presents a view on binding in memory, offering the processes and their determinants and the neural mechanisms enabling these processes.

The content also encompasses a wide range of binding-related topics, including feature binding, the binding of items and contexts during encoding and retrieval, the specific roles of familiarity and recollection, as well as task- and especially age-related changes in these processes. A major section is dedicated to in-depth analyses of underlying neural mechanisms, focusing on both medial temporal and prefrontal structures. Computational approaches are covered as well. For all students and researchers in memory, the book will not only enhance their understanding of binding, but will instigate innovative and pioneering ideas for future research.

1. Introduction - Levels of binding: types, mechanisms and functions of binding in remembering
SECTION I - NEURAL MECHANISMS OF BINDING
2. Memory binding in hippocampal relational networks
3. Part or parcel?
Contextual binding of events in episodic memory
4. Adaptive binding
5. Binding principles in the theta frequency range
6. Relationship between event-related potentials and oscillatory dynamics in episodic retrieval
7. Rhinal-hippocampal contribution to declarative memory formation
SECTION II - A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO MECHANISMS OF BINDING
8. Neural mechanisms of binding in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from computational models
9. The memory chain model of learning, forgetting and disorders of long-term memory
10. The role of time in human memory and binding: a review of the evidence
11. Aging deficits in neuromodulation of representational distinctiveness and conjunctive binding: computational explorations of possible links
SECTION III - BINDING IN PERCEPTION AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
12. Object tokens, binding and visual memory
13. Psychophysiological evidence for binding and unbinding arithmetic knowledge representations
14. Motivated binding: top-down influences in the encoding of compound objects
15. Brain correlates of binding processes of emotion and memory
SECTION IV - BINDING PROCESSES DURING RETRIEVAL
16. Associations and dissociations in recognition memory systems
17. Unpacking explicit memory: the contribution of recollection and familiarity
18. ERP explorations of dual processes in recognition memory
19. Mnemonic binding in the medial temporal lobe
20. Functional imaging studies of intentional and incidental reactivation: implications for the binding problem
21. Binding memory fragments together to form declarative memories depends on cross-cortical storage
22. Retrieval inhibition in episodic recall: effects on feature binding
SECTION V - BINDING IN THE AGING BRAIN
23. Remembering items and their contexts: effects of aging and divided attention
24. Prefrontal and medial temporal lobe contributions to relational memory in young and older adults
25. Binding of memories: adult-age differences and the effects of divided attention in young on episodic memory
26. Binding of source and content: new directions revealed by neuropsychological and age-related effects
27. Age-associated changes in episodic memory: event-related potential (ERP) investigations of recollection and familiarity
28. Episodic memory impairment in preclinical Alzheimer's disease