Libros
Rusiko Bourtchouladze · Columbia University Press, 2004
Memory enables us to make experience meaningful and to form coherent identities for ourselves and intelligible perceptions of others. Indeed, our ability to imagine, anticipate, and create the future is directly commensurate with our ability to retrieve and recollect past experiences. But for all its vital importance in human cognition, for all that it seems so ordinary and obvious, memory remains in many ways as complex and mysterious today as it seemed to ancient philosophers.
We need only to think about the "tip-of-the-tongue" experience to wonder how memories are formed, where they reside in our brains, and why some are retained, while others are forgotten. What is the difference between long- and short-term memory? Can memory be strengthened?
Memories Are Made of This is an account of current memory science that offers answers to these and a host of other questions, comprehensively distilling much diverse and rigorous science. It delves into the biology of memory functions and researches into the mechanics and genetics of memory and the importance of emotions, particularly those resulting from trauma, in the memory process. Of special focus are investigations of cognition in other species.
Are we the only animals who remember and forget? If not, are there commonalties in the memories of different species? The book also surveys our understanding of the effects of injury and disease on memory and concludes with an assessment of emerging pharmacological efforts to preserve and protect our memories and, in turn, ourselves.
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Divulgación
Eric R. Kandel
Katz, 2007
La memoria -capacidad de adquirir y almacenar información sumamente diversa, desde las nimiedades de la vida cotidiana hasta las complejas abstracciones de la geografía y del álgebra- es uno de los aspectos más notables del comportamiento humano: confiere continuidad a nuestra vida y nos brinda una imagen coherente…
Divulgación
Daniel L. Schacter
Ariel, 2003
¿Por qué sufrimos lapsus de memoria?, ¿qué sucede en nuestro cerebro cuando tenemos algo en la punta de la lengua pero no logramos recordarlo?, ¿podemos llegar a inventarnos recuerdos?, ¿cómo maneja nuestra mente los recuerdos traumáticos?, ¿se puede manipular la memoria?, ¿cómo se forma y por qué en la vejez la vamos…
Divulgación · En inglés
Eric R. Kandel
W. W. Norton, 2007
Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind―a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and…
Universitario · En inglés
Charles Stone
Psychology Press, 2015
This edited book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the role that context plays in how and when individuals and groups remember the past. International contributors integrate research from numerous disciplines including social and cognitive psychology, neuroscience, discursive psychology, philosophical…
Universitario · En inglés
Martin A. Conway
Psychology Press, 1994
This book provides a state-of-the-art review and critical evaluation of research into 'flashbulb' memories. The opening chapters explore the 'encoding' view of flashbulb memory formation and critically appraise a number of lines of research that have opposed this view. It is concluded that this research does not…
Universitario · En inglés
Olivier Luminet
Psychology Press, 2009
"We all have memories of highly emotional personal and public events that may have happened some years ago but which are felt as strongly as if they happened yesterday. We remember where they happened, the people who were with us, and seemingly irrelevant details such as the weather, particular sounds or specific…
