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Searching for Memory Book

Daniel Schacter, a Harvard professor of psychology and researcher into the workings of memory and the brain, authoritatively summarizes the most up-to-date scientific knowledge in this controversial field. Many of the advances have come from the study of brain-damaged patients: some remember past events clearly, yet forget the basics of everyday knowledge; others have precisely the reverse affliction. Putting this work together with brain scans and experiments on normal people, a useful understanding has emerged of the connections between the brain and the mind, and of the different types of memory. Schacter also bravely refutes the notion of "recovered memory," arguing persuasively that false memories can be easily created.Read More

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  • Product Description

    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, and brain-damaged patients.

  • 0465025021
  • 9780465025022
  • Daniel L. Schacter
  • 23 January 1997
  • Basic Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 416
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