Description
Book SynopsisMemory is perhaps the most extraordinary phenomenon in the natural world. Without memory there can be no mind as we understand it. Focusing on research in behavioral science and neuroscience, this work is a primer of our scientific understanding of the mechanics of memory and learning.
Trade Review"[A] useful and cheerfully accessible account of current ideas on the phenomenology of, and neurophysiological processes associated with, memory formation."--Steven Rose, Times Higher Education Supplement "[An] entertaining review of the current science of memory."--Anne Harding, Lancet "The success of their book is due to their articulate descriptions, memorable anecdotes, intriguing case studies, provocative 'self experiments,' clever illustrations, and (most important) rigorous judgment... Ranging from drug addiction to autism, from dreaming to brain physiology, this book lives up to its title. Essential."--Choice
Table of ContentsChapter 1: What Is Memory? 1 Chapter 2: Memories of the Here and Now 25 Chapter 3: The Early Development of Memory 50 Chapter 4: Ordinary Forgetting 86 Chapter 5: Amnesia 117 Chapter 6: False Memory 142 Chapter 7: Emotional Learning and Memory 162 Chapter 8: Language 197 Chapter 9: Mechanisms of Memory 228 Chapter 10: The Future of Memory 251 Suggested Readings 259 Notes 261 Index 267
