Ebook: Searching For Memory: the Brain, the Mind, and the Past

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 Alzheimer's disease, from recovered memory to amnesia.;Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1, On Remembering; 2. Building Memories; 3. Of Time and Autobiography; 4. Reflections in a Curved Mirror; 5. Vanishing Traces; 6. The Hidden World Of Implicet Memory; 7. Emotional Memories; 8. Islands in the Fog; 9. The Memory Wars; 10. Stories of Elders; Notes; Bibliography; Index.