Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past

Schacter, Daniel L.

ISBN 10: 0465025021 / ISBN 13: 9780465025022

Published by Basic Books, 1996

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Unmarked. Slight edge wear on unclipped dust jacket. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrated. 698pp. 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, brain-damaged patients, etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465025021
• ISBN 13: 9780465025022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cognitive and Neurosciences

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Synopsis

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 Alzheimer's disease, from recovered memory to amnesia with fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with striking—and sometimes bizarre—amnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma.

About the Author

Daniel L. Schacter is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.