Why we forget and how to remember better : the science behind memory /
"One of us (Elizabeth) had the opportunity to conduct research with a gentleman named Henry Molaison (better known by his initials, H.M.1), who had the interior portion of his left and right temporal lobes (the part of your brain next to your temples) removed in 1953 because of epileptic seizur...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Daniel L. Schacter
- Preface
- Part 1: All the ways to remember. Memory is not one thing
- Procedural memory: muscle memory
- Working memory: keep it in mind
- Episodic memory: travel back in time
- Semantic memory: what you know
- Collective memory: what we remember together
- Part 2: Making memories. Do you need to try to remember?
- Get it into your memory
- and keep it there
- Retrieve that memory
- Associate information
- Control what you forget and remember
- Are you sure that's not a false memory?
- Part 3: When there is too little memory
- or too much. Just normal aging
- or is it Alzheimer's disease?
- What else can go wrong with your memory?
- Post-traumatic stress disorder: when you can't forget
- Those who remember everything
- Part 4: Do the right things. Exercise: the elixir of life
- Nutrition: you are what you eat
- This is your brain on alcohol, cannabis, and drugs
- Sleep well
- Activity, attitude, music, mindfulness, and brain training
- Part 5: Techniques to remember better. Memory aids
- Basic strategies
- Remember names
- Advanced strategies and mnemonics
- Afterword
- Tips to remember better
- Appendix: medications that can impair memory.