EXPLORE THE LIBRARY 
 SEARCH FOR BOOKS 
 MY ACCOUNT 
   
Basic SearchAdvanced SearchHistory
Search:    Refine Search  
> You're searching: Marion Public Library
 
Item Information
 HoldingsHoldings
  Author Notes & Sketches
  Fiction & Biography
  
  Library Journal Review
  
  
  Summary
  Table of Contents
 
 
 More by this author
 
  •  
  • Winter, Alison, 1965-
     
     Subjects
     
  •  
  • Memory.
     
  •  
  • Recollection (Psychology)
     
  •  
  • Memory -- Research -- History.
     
  •  
  • Recollection (Psychology) -- Research -- History.
     
  •  
  • Psychology, Experimental -- History.
     
  •  
  • Truth.
     
     Browse Catalog
      by author:
     
  •  
  •  Winter, Alison, 1965-
     
      by title:
     
  •  
  •  Memory : fragments o...
     
     
     
     MARC Display
    Memory : fragments of a modern history / Alison Winter.
    by Winter, Alison, 1965-
    View full image
    Subjects
  • Memory.
  •  
  • Recollection (Psychology)
  •  
  • Memory -- Research -- History.
  •  
  • Recollection (Psychology) -- Research -- History.
  •  
  • Psychology, Experimental -- History.
  •  
  • Truth.
  • Publisher Info: 
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2012.
    Description: 
    x, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    ISBN: 
    9780226902586 (cloth : alk. paper)
    0226902587 (cloth : alk. paper)
    Contents: 
    On the witness stand -- 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 the past.
    Format Book: 
    Summary: 
    "Picture your twelfth 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 filing cabinet; later, she shows, that cabinet was replaced by the image of a reel of film, ever available for playback. That model, too, was eventually superseded, replaced by the current understanding of memory as the result of an extremely complicated, brain-wide web of cells and systems that together assemble our pasts. Winter introduces us to innovative scientists and sensationalistic seekers, and, drawing on evidence ranging from scientific papers to diaries to movies, explores the way that new understandings from the laboratory have seeped out into psychiatrists' offices, courtrooms, and the culture at large. Along the way, she investigates the sensational battles over the validity of repressed memories that raged through the 1980s and shows us how changes in technology--such as the emergence of recording devices and computers--have again and again altered the way we conceptualize, and even try to study, the ways we remember"--Publisher description.
    No. of Holds: 
    0
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    LocationCollectionCall No.Status 
    Marion Public LibraryTop Floor153.1 WINChecked InAdd Copy to MyList

    Format:HTMLPlain textDelimited
    Subject: 
    Email to:

    Kids iPac Logo

    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
     Powered by SirsiDynix
    © 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.
    Horizon Information Portal