Memory, Brain, and Belief (Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative)

Daniel Schacter; Elaine Scarry

ISBN 10: 0674000617 / ISBN 13: 9780674000612

Published by Harvard University Press, 2000

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The text is clean with no inscriptions, highlighting or underlining. The book and dust jacket are in excellent condition with no significant damage other than a bend in the inside flap of the dust cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory, Brain, and Belief (Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674000617
• ISBN 13: 9780674000612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 3.175W x 16.51H x 24.765D centimeters 3.175 centimeters width by 16.51 centimeters height by 24.765 centimeters depth
• Weight: 680 grams

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Synopsis

The scientific research literature on memory is enormous. Yet until now no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together eminent scholars from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, literature, and medicine to discuss such provocative issues as “false memories,” in which people can develop vivid recollections of events that never happened; retrospective biases, in which memories of past experiences are influenced by one’s current beliefs; and implicit memory, or the way in which nonconscious influences of past experience shape current beliefs.

Ranging from cognitive, neurological, and pathological perspectives on memory and belief, to relations between conscious and nonconscious mental processes, to memory and belief in autobiographical narratives, this book will be uniquely stimulating to scholars in several academic disciplines.

About the Authors

Daniel L. Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

Elaine Scarry is Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University.