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Forgetting : myths, perils and compensations /

In his highly praised book The Nostalgia Factory, renowned memory scholar Douwe Draaisma explored the puzzling logic of memory in later life with humor and deep insight. In this compelling new book he turns to the "miracle" of forgetting. Far from being a defect that may indicate Alzheimer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Draaisma, D. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Waters, Liz (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Dutch
Publicado: New Haven [Connecticut] ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forgetting: an introduction
  • First memories: islands in the stream of forgetting
  • Why we forget dreams
  • In memory of Henry M.
  • The man who forgot faces
  • A slope, followed by an abyss
  • Your colleague has a brilliant idea, yours
  • The Galileo of neurology
  • On repression
  • The myth of total recall
  • The memory of the Esterházys
  • The mirror that never forgets
  • The second death
  • The art of forgetting
  • Questions about forgetting.