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Searching for memory : the brain, the mind, and the past

Author: Daniel L Schacter
Publisher: New York, NY : BasicBooks, ©1996.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Drawing on his own work and that of other cognitive, clinical, and neuroscientists, Schacter gives us overwhelming evidence for the thesis that we possess more than one memory system, which explains why some brain-damaged people cannot remember past events, and others cannot acquire new knowledge or call up old. He also shows us how new breakthroughs in brain imaging are allowing us to see, for the first time, the  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel L Schacter
ISBN: 0465025021 9780465025022 0465075525 9780465075522
OCLC Number: 34745970
Description: xiii, 398 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction : memory's fragile power -- On remembering : "a telescope pointed at time" -- Building memories : encoding and retrieving the present and the past -- Of time and autobiography -- Reflections in a curved mirror : memory distortion -- Vanishing traces : amnesia and the brain -- The hidden world of implicit memory -- Emotional memories : when the past persists -- Islands in the fog : psychogenic amnesia -- The memory wars : seeking truth in the line of fire -- Stories of elders.
Responsibility: Daniel L. Schacter.
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Drawing on his own work and that of other cognitive, clinical, and neuroscientists, Schacter gives us overwhelming evidence for the thesis that we possess more than one memory system, which explains why some brain-damaged people cannot remember past events, and others cannot acquire new knowledge or call up old. He also shows us how new breakthroughs in brain imaging are allowing us to see, for the first time, the many parts of the brain that must interact to enable us to encode or retrieve a memory. Searching for Memory contains fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with striking - and sometimes bizarre - amnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma. Schacter also takes us into the hidden world of implicit memories - unconscious influences of the past that, outside our awareness, affect our judgments, preferences, and actions. And he examines the nature and accuracy of emotionally traumatic memories, using the latest advances in cognitive neuroscience to clarify vexing issues in the heated controversy over repressed memories of childhood trauma.

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