Memory Fragments of a Modern History

Name: Memory Fragments of a Modern History
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ISBN: 9780226084541

ISBN-10: 022608454X

ISBN-13: 9780226084541

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alison Winter

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Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you’re remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain, or are they gone forever?Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century. Tracing the cultural and scientific history of our understanding of memory, Winter explores early metaphors that likened memory to a…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Hugo Mï¿½nsterberg and the Psychology of Witness Memory



The Making of Truth Serum



Memories of War



Wilder Penfield and the Recording of Personal Experience



The Three Lives of Bridey Murphy



Securing Memory in the Cold War



Flashbulb Memories



The Law of Memory



Frederic Bartlett and the Social Psychology of Remembering



Making False Memory



Reliving and Revising Memory


Notes


Index