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Pieces of light : how the new science of memory illuminates the stories we tell about our pasts / Charles Fernyhough.

Title
Pieces of light : how the new science of memory illuminates the stories we tell about our pasts / Charles Fernyhough.
Author
Fernyhough, Charles, 1968-
Publication
New York : HarperCollins, 2013.

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Description
305 p. : 1 ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Blending the most up-to-date science with literature and personal stories, a psychologist provides an illuminating look at human memory--the way people remember and forget.
Subject
  • Autobiographical memory
  • Memory
  • Memory, Long-Term > physiology
  • Mental Recall
  • Perseveration (Psychology)
  • Reproduction (Psychology)
  • Retention, Psychology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-282) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Casting a line -- Getting lost -- The scent museum -- The sunny never-never -- Walking at Goldhanger -- Negotiating the past -- The plan of what might be -- The feeling of remembering -- Remember me a story -- The horror returning -- The Martha tapes -- A special kind of truth.
ISBN
  • 9780062237897
  • 0062237896
OCLC
802324403
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library