Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell about Our Pasts (Inbunden)
avCharles Fernyhough
ISBN: 9780062237897 - UTGIVEN: 201303How is it possible to have vivid memories of something that never happened?How can siblings remember the same event from their childhoods so differently?Do the selections and distortions of memory reveal a truth about the self?Why are certain memories tied to specific places?Does your memory really [...]
Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell about Our Pasts (Häftad)
avCharles Fernyhough
ISBN: 9780062237903 - UTGIVEN: 2014-01Short-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, the Best Book of Ideas Prize, and the Society of Biology Book Awards - Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Sunday Express, and New ScientistA new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing fixed, unchanging [...]
A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind (Häftad)
avCharles Fernyhough
ISBN: 9781583333976 - UTGIVEN: 2010-05A father's intimate look at his daughter's developing mind from birth to age three
Unlike any other time in our lives, we remember almost nothing from our first three years. As infants, not only are we like the proverbial blank slate but our memories are like teflon: nothing sticks. In this bea[...]
Pieces of Light (Inbunden)
avCharles Fernyhough
ISBN: 9781846684487 - UTGIVEN: 201207Why we remember what we remember? Memory is an essential part of who we are. But what is a memory, and how do we remember? A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing a particular memory from our past, we construct it anew each time we are called upon to remember. [...]
Pieces of Light (Häftad)
avCharles Fernyhough
ISBN: 9781846684494 - UTGIVEN: 2013-07A collection of human stories, each illustrating a facet of memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions. Drawing on case studies, personal experience and the latest research, it delves into the memories of the very young and very old, and explores how amnesia and trauma can affe[...]
A Box Of Birds (Häftad)
avCharles Fernyhough
ISBN: 9781908717573 - UTGIVEN: 201305Neuroscientist Dr Yvonne Churcher has problems in the world beyond her lab. One of her students, James, a dangerously attractive animal rights campaigner, has set out to challenge her certainties about how the brain works. His brilliant, unstable friend, Gareth, is obsessed with the biochemical basi[...]
