Remembering: An activity of mind and brain is the magnum opus of one of the leading figures in the psychology of memory. It sets out Fergus Craik's current view of human memory as a dynamic activity of mind and brain - a system of active cognitive processes similar to the processes underlying attending, perceiving and thinking.

Fergus I. M. Craik obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh in 1960, and his PhD in psychology from the University of Liverpool in 1965. He was on the faculty of Birkbeck College, University of London from 1965-1971 before moving to the University of Toronto in 1971, where he was a faculty member until he retired in 2000. He chaired the Department of Psychology at Toronto from 1985-1990 and was appointed University Professor in 1997. He has been associated with the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest in Toronto since 1988, and was appointed Senior Scientist at that Institute in 2000; he retired from the Institute in 2018. Craik's research work involves the experimental study of human memory processes; other interests are cognitive aging, and the effects of bilingualism on cognitive functions in health and disease. Craik held the Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging from 1996 - 2000; he has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bordeaux, Saarland and Edinburgh.

• 1: Levels of Processing: Development of an idea


• 2: Processing views of remembering - A brief historical survey


• 3: Remembering: A personal view


• 4: Encoding and encoding-retrieval interactions


• 5: Retrieval Processes


• 6: From short-term memory to working memory: Evolution of a construct


• 7: Aging I: Early studies and theoretical views


• 8: Aging II: Later empirical work


• 9: Neuroimaging Studies


• 10: Final Reflections and Future Trends