Searching For Memory: The Brain, The Mind, And The Past

Searching For Memory: The Brain, The Mind, And The Past
ISBN-10
0465025021
ISBN-13
9780465025022
Category
Psychology / General
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
1996-05-30
Publisher
Basic Books
Author
Daniel L. Schacter

Description

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.

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