Searching for Memory

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r psychology / science 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, onq 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. "An engrossing and monumental explanation of what we know about memory, written by one of the world's most distinguished scientists on the topic. Its scientific thoroughness and its pertinent references to art, literature, and current affairs... Tovább

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r psychology / science 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, onq 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. "An engrossing and monumental explanation of what we know about memory, written by one of the world's most distinguished scientists on the topic. Its scientific thoroughness and its pertinent references to art, literature, and current affairs makeí it ^ fascinating and indispensable guide/' -steven Pinker, Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT, and author of The Language Instinct * " Searching for Memory is an effective and enlightening celebration of the diverse phenomena of human remembering." -larry squire, Nature "Splendidly lucid. - The New Yorker 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 (1982) and has received the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. Vissza