Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-294) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: memory, metamemory, media, and myth -- Memory myths: a review and new data -- Memory accuracy and permanence -- An unholy tetrad : repression, recovered memory, false memory, and hypnosis -- Memory and the brain : implants and erasure -- Retrograde amnesia -- Anterograde amnesia -- Memory, aging, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia -- Memory and the legal system : eyewitnesses -- Memory and the legal system : false confessions -- Superior memory -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Movies about memory.
Summary:
This book confronts popular myths about memory with scientific evidence on memory permanence, recovered memory and repression, amnesia, eyewitness memory, superior memory, and other topics. The book also discusses the consequences of these myths and possible strategies for debunking them.
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