Memory How We Used It, Lose It And Can Improve It

Memory is as essential to everyday life as seeing and hearing, smelling and touching. In Memory David Samuel draws on a lifetime of scientific research to produce an informative, refreshing and wide-ranging view of the what is known about memory; how it was - and is - studied, including the most sophisticated and expensive methods for studying brain function and memory; long- and short-term memory; what to remember? and is there a limit to what one can remember?; Alzheimer's disease; experiments on octopuses, rats; monkeys and students; normal loss of memory, and the effect of alcohol, drugs and anxiety; deliberate and unintentional fraud in `tricks of memory'; how to improve memory - why do diplomats, actors and doormen have such good memories?

Author: David Samuel

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Released Date: 1999

ISBN: 9780297818373