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Memory, brain, and belief / edited by Daniel L. Schacter, Elaine Scarry.
LIBRA QP406 .M44 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Congresses.
- Memory.
- Belief and doubt--Congresses.
- Belief and doubt.
- Cognitive neuroscience--Congresses.
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Memory Disorders--physiopathology.
- Brain.
- Delusions.
- Knowledge.
- Memory--physiology.
- Self Concept.
- Medical Subjects:
- Memory Disorders--physiopathology.
- Brain.
- Delusions.
- Knowledge.
- Memory--physiology.
- Self Concept.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 349 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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:
- 1 Mining the Past to Construct the Future: Memory and Belief as Forms of Knowledge / Chris Westbury, Daniel C. Dennett 11
- Part I Cognitive, Neurological, and Pathological Perspectives
- 2 Cognitive and Brain Mechanisms of False Memories and Beliefs / Marcia K. Johnson, Carol L. Raye 35
- 3 Memory and the Brain: New Lessons from Old Syndromes / V. S. Ramachandran 87
- 4 The Role of Memory in the Delusions Associated with Schizophrenia / Chris Frith, Raymond J. Dolan 115
- Part II Conscious and Nonconscious Aspects of Memory and Belief: From Social Judgments to Brain Mechanisms
- 5 Implicit Stereotypes and Memory: The Bounded Rationality of Social Beliefs / Mahzarin R. Banaji, R. Bhaskar 139
- 6 Belief and Knowledge as Distinct Forms of Memory / Howard Eichenbaum, J. Alexander Bodkin 176
- 7 Where in the Brain Is the Awareness of One's Past? / Endel Tulving, Martin Lepage 208
- Part III Memory and Belief in Autobiographical Recall and Autobiography
- 8 Constructing and Appraising Past Selves / Michael Ross, Anne E. Wilson 231
- 9 Memory and Belief in Development / Katherine Nelson 259
- 10 Autobiography, Identity, and the Fictions of Memory / Paul John Eakin 290
- 11 Autobiography as Moral Battleground / Sissela Bok 307
- Thinking about Belief: Concluding Remarks / Antonio R. Damasio 325.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0674000617
- OCLC:
- 41982235
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