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Searching for Memory
The Brain, the Mind and the Past
Langbeschreibung
Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost mystical level, psychologists have struggled to demystify it. Now, according to Daniel Schacter, one of the most distinguished memory researchers, the mysteries of memory are finally yielding to dramatic, even revolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Schacter explains how and why it may change our understanding of everything from false memory to Alzheimer's disease, from recovered memory to amnesia with fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with striking-and sometimes bizarre-amnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
* Introduction: Memorys Fragile Power * On Remembering: A Telescope Pointed at Time * Building Memories: Encoding and Retrieving the Present and the Past * Of Time and Autobiography * Reflections in a Curved Mirror: Memory Distortion * Vanishing Traces: Amnesia and the Brain * The Hidden World of Implicit Memory * Emotional Memories: When the Past Persists * Islands in the Fog: Psychogenic Amnesia * The Memory Wars: Seeking Truth in the Line of Fire * Stories of Elders
Daniel L. Schacter is professor and chair of psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of Stranger Behind the Engram: Theories of Memory and The Psychology of Science and has received the Troland Research Award from the National academy of Sciences. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.
ISBN-13:
9780465075522
Veröffentl:
1997
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.1997
Seiten:
420
Autor:
Daniel L. Schacter
Gewicht:
503 g
Format:
203x127x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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