Searching for memory : the brain, the mind, and the past

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Searching for memory : the brain, the mind, and the past

Daniel L. Schacter

BasicBooks, c1996

  • : cloth
  • : paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-385) and index

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: cloth ISBN 9780465025022

内容説明

The mysteries of memory are finally yielding to dramatic, even revolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Drawing on his own cutting-edge research and that of other cognitive, clinical, and neuroscientists, Schacter explains how and why this research may change our understanding of everything from false memory to Alzheimers disease, from recovered memory to amnesia.. 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 Alzheimers disease, from recovered memory to amnesia with fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with strikingand sometimes bizarreamnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma.

目次

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
巻冊次

: paper ISBN 9780465075522

内容説明

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.

目次

* 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

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