Few things are as essential to our lives-and as apparently
unfathomable-as our memories. As Jane Austen's heroine Fanny Price
remarks in "Mansfield Park," "if any one faculty of our nature may
be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory . .
. sometimes so retentive and so serviceable, so obedient-and at
others so bewildered and so weak."
In Memory, David Samuel draws on a lifetime of scientific
research to produce an informative and wide-ranging view of the
subject. He examines how memory has been investigated in the past
and what modern studies of brain structure and function can tell us
about it. He then goes on to discuss long-term, short-term, and
working memory, the limits to and normal loss of memory, the
effects of alcohol, drugs and anxiety, Alzheimer's, and both
deliberate and unintentional fraud in "tricks of memory."
While exploring the future of memory research, he also addresses
the age-old questions of how to improve our memory and why certain
people, such as diplomats, actors and doormen, have such good
memories.
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