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How the Mind Forgets and Remembers: The Seven Sins of Memory

by Daniel L. Schacter
How the Mind Forgets and Remembers: The Seven Sins of Memory
How the Mind Forgets and Remembers: The Seven Sins of Memory

Insight into memory's quirks and genius.

Curious about why you forget your keys or relive embarrassments? "How the Mind Forgets and Remembers" delves into the paradoxes of memory, making neuroscience relatable. Schacter's expertise offers comfort and intrigue—you'll understand the complexity of your mind and learn to appreciate even its slip-ups. This book can change how you think about your own brain's glitches.

  • William James Book Award (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

How the Mind Forgets and Remembers: The Seven Sins of Memory

by Daniel L. Schacter
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ISBN: 9780285636835
Authors: Daniel L. Schacter
Publisher: Souvenir
Date of Publication: 2003-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Personal Development, Science
Related Topics: Personal Development, Psychology, Health, Education, Psychology, Neuroscience
Goodreads rating: 3.88
(rated by 1823 readers)

Description

A groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost memory experts that offers the first framework to explain the basic memory miscues that we all encounter. Daniel L. Schacter, chairman of Harvard University's Psychology Department, is internationally recognized as one of the world's authorities on memory. He explains that just as the seven deadly sins, the seven memory sins appear routinely in everyday life, and why it is a good thing that they happen and surprisingly vital to a keen mind. The author explains how transience reflects a weakening of memory over time, how absent-mindedness occurs when failures of attention sabotage memory, and how blocking happens when we can't retrieve a name we know well. Three other sins involve distorted misattribution (assigning a memory to the wrong source), suggestibility (implanting false memories), and bias (rewriting the past based on present beliefs). The seventh sin, persistence, concerns intrusive recollections that we cannot forget - even when we wish we could. Daniel Schacter illustrates decades of research into memory lapses with compelling, and often bizarre, examples - for example, the violinist who placed a priceless Stradivarius on top of his car before driving off and the national memory champion who was plagued by absentmindedness. This book also explores recent research, such as the imaging of the brain that actually shows memories being formed. Together the stories and scientific findings examined in How the Mind For
 

Insight into memory's quirks and genius.

Curious about why you forget your keys or relive embarrassments? "How the Mind Forgets and Remembers" delves into the paradoxes of memory, making neuroscience relatable. Schacter's expertise offers comfort and intrigue—you'll understand the complexity of your mind and learn to appreciate even its slip-ups. This book can change how you think about your own brain's glitches.

  • William James Book Award (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.