Isbn: 9780814781456 - memory: how we use it, lose it and can improve it (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. 0th Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Zustand: Good. 0th Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Like New. New York, 1999; gray cloth covered boards; minimal shelf wear; glossy illustrated jacket with minimal wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 128 pages.

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Zustand: New. 1999. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 128 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. KlappentextFew things are as essential to our lives -- and as apparently unfathomable -- as our memories. As Jane Austen s heroine Fanny Price remarks in Mansfield Park, if any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few things are as essential to our lives-and as apparently unfathomable-as our memories. As Jane Austen's heroine Fanny Price remarks in Mansfield Park, 'if any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory . . . sometimes so retentive and so serviceable, so obedient-and at others so bewildered and so weak.' In Memory, David Samuel draws on a lifetime of scientific research to produce an informative and wide-ranging view of the subject. He examines how memory has been investigated in the past and what modern studies of brain structure and function can tell us about it. He then goes on to discuss long-term, short-term, and working memory, the limits to and normal loss of memory, the effects of alcohol, drugs and anxiety, Alzheimer's, and both deliberate and unintentional fraud in 'tricks of memory.' While exploring the future of memory research, he also addresses the age-old questions of how to improve our memory and why certain people, such as diplomats, actors and doormen, have such good memories.…