Memory, Brain, and Belief (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674007192)

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 discuss such provocative issues as "false memories," 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 nonconscious 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 uniquely stimulating to scholars in several academic disciplines.

Author: Daniel L. Schacter
ISBN-10: 0674007190
ISBN-13: 9780674007192
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2001
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d