Memory, Brain, and Belief
Published on 28. June 2002
Book
Hardback
362 pages
978-0-674-00061-2 (ISBN)
Description
The scientific research literature on memory is enormous. Yet until now no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together eminent scholars from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, literature, and medicine to discus such provocative issues as "false memoirs", in which people can develop vivid recollections of events that never happened; retrospective biases, in which memories of past experiences are influenced by one's current beliefs; and implicit memory, or the way in which non-conscious influences of past experience shape current beliefs. Ranging from cognitive, neurological and pathological perspectives on memory and belief, to relations between conscious and nonconscious mental processes, to memory and belief in autobiographical narratives, this book will be of interest to scholars in several academic disciplines.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 line illustrations, 8 tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-00061-2 (9780674000612)
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Persons
Content
Mining the past to construct the future: memory and belief as forms of knowledge by Chris Westbury and Daniel Dennett; cognitive and brain mechanisms of false memories and beliefs by Marcia Johnson and Carol Raye; memory and the brain: new lessons from old syndromes by V S Ramachandran; the role of memory in the delusions associated with schizophreniia by Chris Frith and Raymond J Dolan; implicit stereotypes and memory: the bounded rationality of social beliefs by Mahzarin R Banaji and R Bhaskar; belief and knowledge as distinct forms of memory by Howard eichenbaum and J Alexander Bodkin; where in the brain is the awareness of one's past? by Endel Tulving and Martin Lepage; constructing and appraising past selves by Michael Ross and Anne E Wilson; memory and belief in development by Katherine Nelson; autobiography, identity and the fictions of memroy by John Paul Eakin; autobiography as moral battleground by Sissela Bok; thinking about belief: concluding remarks by Antonio R Damasio.