
Memory
How We Use it, Lose it and Can Improve it
David Samuel(Author)
New York University Press
Published on 1. September 1999
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-0-8147-8145-6 (ISBN)
Description
Few things are as essential to our lives-and as apparently unfathomable-as our memories. As Jane Austen's heroine Fanny Price remarks in Mansfield Park, "if any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory ...sometimes so retentive and so serviceable, so obedient-and at others so bewildered and so weak." In Memory, David Samuel draws on a lifetime of scientific research to produce an informative and wide-ranging view of the subject. He examines how memory has been investigated in the past and what modern studies of brain structure and function can tell us about it. He then goes on to discuss long-term, short-term, and working memory, the limits to and normal loss of memory, the effects of alcohol, drugs and anxiety, Alzheimer's, and both deliberate and unintentional fraud in "tricks of memory." While exploring the future of memory research, he also addresses the age-old questions of how to improve our memory and why certain people, such as diplomats, actors and doormen, have such good memories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8147-8145-6 (9780814781456)
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David Samuel is Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. He was the Founder and Director of the Centre for the Chemistry of the Brain and Behavior, and a member of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). He has been a visiting professor at universities in the UK, Canada, and the US, including the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard and Yale.