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.
關於作者:
Daniel L. Schacter is professor and chair of psychology at
Harvard University. He is the author of Stranger Behind the Engram:
Theories of Memory and the Psychology of Science 1982 and has
received the Troland Research Award from the National academy of
Sciences. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two
daughters.