Full name: Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory

Author: Charles Fernyhough Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com ISBNs: 9781846684487 9780062237897 184668448X 0062237896

A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing fixed, unchanging memories, we create new recollections each time we are called upon to remember. As psychologist Charles Fernyhough explains, remembering is an act of narrative imagination as much as it is the product of a neurological process. In Pieces of Light, he illuminates this compelling scientific breakthrough in a series of personal stories, each illustrating memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions. Combining science and literature, the ordinary and the extraordinary, this fascinating tour through the new science of autobiographical memory helps us better understand the ways we remember-and the ways we forget. Similar books: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon Next of Kin by Roger Fouts The Shallows by Nicholas Carr The Red Queen by Matt Ridley How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg The Human Brain Book by Rita Carter Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky The Runaway Species by David Eagleman The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Barrett Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf Sperm Wars by Robin Baker The Forgetting by David Shenk The Agile Gene by Matt Ridley Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler