We possess inside our heads a system for classifying, storing and retrieving information that exceeds the best computer in capacity, flexibility and speed. But how dose it work? How is it possible to recall facts and figures? Why do we forget? Why dose our mind become an impossible cluttered lumber-room. ‘Your Memory’ answers of these questions.
Alan Baddeley is professor of Psychology at the University of York and has lectured extensively worldwide including the University of California, Harvard University and the University of Texas. He has written five books on human memory and edited another seven.