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Pieces of Light: The new science of memory Book

Why we remember what we remember? Memory is an essential part of who we are. But what is a memory, and how do we remember? A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing a particular memory from our past, we construct it anew each time we are called upon to remember. Remembering is an act of narrative as much as it is the product of a neurological process. Pieces of Light illuminates this theory through a collection of human stories, each illustrating a facet of memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions. Drawing on the latest research, case studies and personal experience, Charles Fernyhough delves into the memories of trauma victims and amnesiacs; and of the very young and very old - visiting medieval memoria and scent-museums along the way. Exquisitely written and meticulously researched, Pieces of Light blends science and literature, the ordinary and the extraordinary, to illuminate the way we remember and forget.Read More

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  • Waterstones

    Memory is an essential part of who we are. But what is a memory, and how do we remember? A new consensus is emerging among scientists: rather than possessing a particular memory from our past, we construct it anew each time we are called upon to reme

  • 184668448X
  • 9781846684487
  • Charles Fernyhough
  • 5 July 2012
  • Profile Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 352
  • Advance Reading Copy?
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