Memories Are Made of This: How Memory Works in Humans and Animals

by Rusiko Bourtchouladze

Book Overview

Memory enables us to make experience meaningful and to form coherent identities for ourselves and intelligible perceptions of others. Indeed, our ability to imagine, anticipate, and create the future is directly commensurate with our ability to retrieve and recollect past experiences.

But for all its vital importance in human cognition, for all that it seems so ordinary and obvious, memory remains in many ways as complex and mysterious today...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231120214
• ISBN13: 9780231120210
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher