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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.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Your memory is certainly the most crucial aspect of who you are. Without it, arguably at least, consciousness itself borders on irrelevance, and identity no longer exists. Most of us think of memory, metaphorically, as shining a spotlight on images, sounds, and emotions from our past. Reading Daniel Schacter's fascinating text, Searching for Memory, The Brain, the Mind, and the Past, I realized just how deceptive and simplistic that notion is. In fact, every time you speak, or write something, or read, or drive a car, you're calling on "procedural" memory which allows you to learn skills and acquire habits, and/or "semantic" memory, which includes conceptual and factual knowledge. Even the spotlight-type memories you do have can be divided into "field" memories, which mimic your perceptions at the time of the original experience, and "observer" memories, which where you actually see yourself from the outside. (The latter is common when recalling early-childhood experiences.) Searching for Memory is beautifully written, and teeming with stories and anecdotes that illustrate the nature of memory in a way that makes the absorption of its insights effortless. My only complaint about this book is that my wife kept trying to read it over my shoulder. If you're married, I suggest you order two copies.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I'm a third year psychology student with an interest in neuropsychology, particularly of memory, and so I know Daniel Schacter from my course and I was interested in reading more of his work. This book is amazing, it's one you can read cover to cover and it's very entertaining and informative, even if you know a little about the subject already. The only thing that'll bug you by the end is the number of times he says 'memory's fragile power' but hey, that's just being picky - this really is an amazing book, read it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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An impressive journey in the power and at the same time in the fallacy of the human memory. This book addresses with a clear and simple language topics such as what builds up our self-consciousness of individuals, how we use our memory and mind capabilities each and every second of our life, and the effect that our memory has on our perception of the world. The chapter on "implicit memory" and "priming" is simply great, as are many other sections of this book. Probably one of the most interesting lectures I have read in my life!
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