Searching for memory the brain, the mind and the past

Daniel Schacter

ISBN 10: 0465025021 / ISBN 13: 9780465025022

Verlag: BasicBooks a Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996

Beschreibung

The author this 398 page 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inch hard cover on the title page. Boards are covered with 1/4 yellow cloth over gray paper with maroon lettering on the spine. There is a dark spot or two on the spine. The interior of the volume is bright, clean and without marks. The dust jacket has a few nicks to the back panel and the edges show light wear and a bit of a curl, however, it is not protected by a clear removable cover.This is a later printing of the First Edition.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Searching for memory the brain, the mind and the past
• Verlag: BasicBooks a Division of HarperCollinsPublishers
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0465025021
• ISBN-13: 9780465025022
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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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.