The mysteries of memory are finally yielding to dramatic, evenrevolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Drawing on his owncutting-edge research and that of other cognitive, clinical, andneuroscientists, Schacter explains how and why this research maychange our understanding of everything from false memory toAlzheimers disease, from recovered memory to amnesia.. Memory.There may be nothing more important to human beings than ourability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosophersand poets have elevated memory to an almost mystical level,psychologists have struggled to demystify it. Now, according toDaniel Schacter, one of the most distinguished memory researchers,the mysteries of memory are finally yielding to dramatic, evenrevolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Schacter explains how andwhy it may change our understanding of everything from false memoryto Alzheimers disease, from recovered memory to amnesia withfascinating firsthand accounts of patients with strikingandsometimes bizarreamnesias resulting from brain injury orpsychological trauma.
【作者简介】
Daniel L. Schacter is professor and chair of psychology atHarvard University. He is the author of Stranger Behind the Engram:Theories of Memory and the Psychology of Science (1982) and hasreceived the Troland Research Award from the National academy ofSciences. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and twodaughters.
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