Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past

Schacter, Daniel L.

ISBN 10: 0465025021 / ISBN 13: 9780465025022

Verlag: Basic Books, 1996

Beschreibung

Unmarked. Slight edge wear on unclipped dust jacket. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrated. 698pp. Traces the remarkable breakthroughs in understanding how memories are stored and retrieved. Offers firsthand accounts of what we know and what it means, and sheds light on hot topics, such as false memory syndrome, recovered memory, Alzheimer's disease, brain-damaged patients, etc.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23694

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past
• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0465025021
• ISBN-13: 9780465025022
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Cognitive and Neurosciences

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel L. Schacter is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.