Memory : the key to consciousness / Richard F. Thompson, Stephen A. Madigan.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, (c)2007.Edition: First Princeton paperback editionDescription: 1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9781400849482
- 9781299991279
- BF371 .M466 2007
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Originally published: Washington D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, 2005.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; 1 What Is Memory?; 2 Memories of the Here and Now; 3 The Early Development of Memory; 4 Ordinary Forgetting; 5 Amnesia; 6 False Memory; 7 Emotional Learning and Memory; 8 Language; 9 Mechanisms of Memory; 10 The Future of Memory; Suggested Readings; Notes; Index.
Memory is perhaps the most extraordinary phenomenon in the natural world. Every person's brain holds millions of bits of information in long-term storage. This vast memory store includes our extensive vocabulary and knowledge of language; the tremendous and unique variety of facts we've amassed; all the skills we've learned, from walking and talking to musical and athletic performance; many of the emotions we feel; and the continuous sensations, feelings, and understandings of the world we term consciousness. Without memory there can be no mind as we understand it. Focusing.
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