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Memory: How We Use It, Lose It and Can Improve It - Hardcover

Samuel, David

 
9780814781456: Memory: How We Use It, Lose It and Can Improve It
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0814781454 ISBN 13: 9780814781456
Verlag: NYU Press - IPS, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Few things are as essential to our lives-and as apparently unfathomable-as our memories. As Jane Austen's heroine Fanny Price remarks in Mansfield Park, "if any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory . . . sometimes so retentive and so serviceable, so obedient-and at others so bewildered and so weak."
In Memory, David Samuel draws on a lifetime of scientific research to produce an informative and wide-ranging view of the subject. He examines how memory has been investigated in the past and what modern studies of brain structure and function can tell us about it. He then goes on to discuss long-term, short-term, and working memory, the limits to and normal loss of memory, the effects of alcohol, drugs and anxiety, Alzheimer's, and both deliberate and unintentional fraud in "tricks of memory."
While exploring the future of memory research, he also addresses the age-old questions of how to improve our memory and why certain people, such as diplomats, actors and doormen, have such good memories.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Samuel is Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. He was the Founder and Director of the Centre for the Chemistry of the Brain and Behavior, and a member of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). He has been a visiting professor at universities in the UK, Canada, and the US, including the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard and Yale.

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Verlag
NYU Press - IPS
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814781454
ISBN 13 
9780814781456
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
140
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