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Top 10 books on memory

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 | 8:04 AM

From Proust to the latest neuroscience, the psychologist and novelist rounds up the best reading on the 'slippery charms' of an essential faculty

When I told people that I was going to write a book on memory, I saw "good luck with that" written on a few faces. Memory is a massive topic. Any intelligent system needs some way of tracking where it is in time, and that means remembering where it has been. No surprise, then, that studying memory proliferates into numerous sub-disciplines. You can specialise in short-term memory (memory traces that persist for a few seconds) or cast your net into memories that stretch back through an entire human lifetime. An essential distinction is between memory for facts (semantic memory) and memory for events (episodic memory). I was interested in a branch of memory research that straddles the two: autobiographical memory, or the memory we have for the events of our own lives.



















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