Searching for Memory by Daniel L Schacter
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 Alzheimers disease, from recovered memory to amnesia.. 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 Alzheimers disease, from recovered memory to amnesia with fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with strikingand sometimes bizarreamnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma.
Schacter, Daniel L.: - DANIEL L. SCHACTER is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology in the Psychology Department of Harvard University. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received numerous awards for his research, including the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association and the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. He is the author of many books on memory and neuropsychology, including Searching for Memory, which received praise as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and which won the American Psychological Association's William James Book Award, as did The Sevens Sins of Memory. Schacter lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780465025022 |
| ISBN 10 | 0465025021 |
| Title | Searching for Memory |
| Author | Daniel L Schacter |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Year published | 1996-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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