Memory : the key to consciousness / Richard F. Thompson, Stephen A. Madigan.

By:

Thompson, Richard F [author.]

Contributor(s):

Madigan, Stephen A [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))Publisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2007Edition: First Princeton paperback editionDescription: 1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400849482
1400849489
1299991270
9781299991279

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Memory.DDC classification:

153.12 22

LOC classification:

BF371 .T484 2007eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Originally published: Washington D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

In English.

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