Memory, Brain, and Belief

by Schacter, Daniel L.; Scarry, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9780674007192
• ISBN10: 0674007190
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-30
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Daniel L. Schacter
Elaine Scarry
Mining the Past to Construct the Future: Memory and Belief as Forms of Knowledge	11	(24)
Chris Westbury
Daniel C. Dennett
PART I Cognitive, Neurological, and Pathological Perspectives
Cognitive and Brain Mechanisms of False Memories and Beliefs	35	(52)
Marcia K. Johnson
Carol L. Raye
Memory and the Brain: New Lessons from Old Syndromes	87	(28)
V. S. Ramachandran
The Role of Memory in the Delusions Associated with Schizophrenia	115	(24)
Chris Frith
Raymond J. Dolan
PART II Conscious and Nonconscious Aspects of Memory and Belief: From Social Judgments to Brain Mechanisms
Implicit Stereotypes and Memory: The Bounded Rationality of Social Beliefs	139	(37)
Mahzarin R. Banaji
R. Bhaskar
Belief and Knowledge as Distinct Forms of Memory	176	(32)
Howard Eichenbaum
J. Alexander Bodkin
Where in the Brain Is the Awareness of One's Past?	208	(23)
Endel Tulving
Martin Lepage
PART III Memory and Belief in Autobiographical Recall and Autobiography
Constructing and Appraising Past Selves	231	(28)
Michael Ross
Anne E. Wilson
Memory and Belief in Development	259	(31)
Katherine Nelson
Autobiography, Identity, and the Fictions of Memory	290	(17)
Paul John Eakin
Autobiography as Moral Battleground	307	(28)
Sissela Bok
Thinking about Belief: Concluding Remarks	325	(10)
Antonio R. Damasio
Contributors	335	(2)
Index	337