Marking the Mind: A History of Memory

by Kurt Danziger

Book Overview

Memory is one of the few psychological concepts with a truly ancient lineage. Presenting a history of the interrelated changes in memory tasks, memory technology and ideas about memory from antiquity to the late twentieth century, this book confronts psychology's 'short present' with its 'long past'. Kurt Danziger, one of the most influential historians of psychology of recent times, traces long-term continuities from ancient mnemonics and tools of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521726417
• ISBN13: 9780521726412
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.6"