Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts
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Short-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, the Best Book of Ideas Prize, and the Society of Biology Book Awards - Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Sunday Express, and New Scientist "In its stunning blend of the literary with the scientific, Pieces of Light illuminates ordinary and extraordinary stories to remind us that who we are now has everything to do with who we were once, and that identity itself is intricately rooted the transporting moments of remembrance. We are what we remember." - André Aciman, author of Out of Egypt and Harvard Square A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing fixed, unchanging memories, we create new recollections each time we are called upon to remember. As 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 illuminates this compelling scientific breakthrough in a series of personal stories, each illustrating memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions. Combining science and literature, the ordinary and the extraordinary, this fascinating tour through the new science of autobiographical memory helps us better understand the ways we remember-and the ways we forget.
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Fernyhough, C. (2013). Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts. [United States], HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fernyhough, Charles. 2013. Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts. [United States], HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fernyhough, Charles, Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts. [United States], HarperCollins, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Fernyhough, Charles. Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts. [United States], HarperCollins, 2013.
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