Searching For Memory The Brain, The Mind, And The Past

by Schacter, Daniel L

• ISBN13: 9780465075522
• ISBN10: 0465075525
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-02
• Publisher: BASIC BOOKS

Summary

The mysteries of memory are finally yielding to dramatic, even revolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Drawing on his own cutting-edge research and that of other cognitive, clinical, and neuroscientists, Schacter explains how and why this research may change our understanding of everything from false memory to Alzheimer's disease, from recovered memory to amnesia.

Author Biography

Daniel L. Schacter is professor and chair of psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of Stranger Behind the Engram: Theories of Memory and the Psychology of Science (1982) and has received the Troland Research Award from the National academy of Sciences. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Memory's Fragile Power	p. 1
On Remembering "A Telescope Pointed at Time"	p. 15
Building Memories Encoding and Retrieving the Present and the Past	p. 39
Of Time and Autobiography	p. 72
Reflections in a Curved Mirror Memory Distortion	p. 98
Vanishing Traces Amnesia and the Brain	p. 134
The Hidden World of Implicit Memory	p. 161
Emotional Memories When the Past Persists	p. 192
Islands in the Fog Psychogenic Amnesia	p. 218
The Memory Wars Seeking Truth in the Line of Fire	p. 248
Stories of Elders	p. 280
Notes	p. 309
Bibliography	p. 350
Index	p. 387
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