Memory lane : the perfectly imperfect ways we remember /
"Making Memories describes the science of how memories are constructed and reconstructed, revealing how this process of making (and remaking) memories - which has strengths, but also introduces vulnerabilities - is central to the formation of our identities. Rather than retrieving memories full...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- What's this book about?
- What is memory?
- Why is it good to forget?
- Why are we not better eyewitnesses?
- Why does new information sometimes change our memories of the past?
- Why do we build entirely false memories?
- Who is susceptible to false memories?
- How does emotion affect our memories?
- How do our memories function in a digital world?
- How do our flawed memories affect our behaviour?
- Is it ethical to question and manipulate memory?
- So now what?