Pieces of Light
(eAudiobook)
How is it possible to have vivid memories of something that never happened? How can siblings remember the same event from their childhoods so differently? Do the selections and distortions of memory reveal a truth about the self? Why are certain memories tied to specific places? Does your memory really get worse as you get older? A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing fixed, unchanging memories, we create recollections anew each time we are called upon to remember. As the psychologist Charles Fernyhough explains, remembering is an act of narrative imagination as much as it is the product of a neurological process. In Pieces of Light, he eloquently illuminates this compelling scientific breakthrough via a series of personal stories-a visit to his college campus to see if his memories hold up, an interview with his ninety-three-year-old grandmother, conversations with those whose memories are affected by brain damage and trauma-each illustrating memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions. Fernyhough guides readers through the fascinating new science of autobiographical memory, covering topics including imagination and the power of sense associations to cue remembering. Exquisitely written and meticulously researched, Pieces of Light brings together science and literature, the ordinary and the extraordinary, to help us better understand the ways we remember-and the ways we forget.
Notes
Fernyhough, C., & Jackson, G. (2013). Pieces of Light. Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fernyhough, Charles and Gildart, Jackson. 2013. Pieces of Light. [United States], HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fernyhough, Charles and Gildart, Jackson, Pieces of Light. [United States], HarperAudio, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Fernyhough, Charles, and Gildart Jackson. Pieces of Light. Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio, 2013.
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