Memory, Brain, and Belief

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Daniel L. Schacter, Elaine Scarry
Harvard University Press, 2001 - Medical - 349 pages

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.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Cognitive and Brain Mechanisms of False Memories
35
New Lessons from Old Syndromes
87
The Role of Memory in the Delusions Associated with
115
The Bounded Rationality
139
Where in the Brain Is the Awareness of Ones Past?
208
Constructing and Appraising Past Selves
231
Memory and Belief in Development
259
Autobiography Identity and the Fictions
290
Autobiography as Moral Battleground
307
Concluding Remarks
325
Contributors
335
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About the author (2001)

Daniel L. Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Elaine Scarry is Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University.

Bibliographic information

TitleMemory, Brain, and Belief
Volume 2 of Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative Series
EditorsDaniel L. Schacter, Elaine Scarry
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherHarvard University Press, 2001
ISBN0674007190, 9780674007192
Length349 pages
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Medical / General
Medical / Neuroscience
Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Psychology / General
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