A sense of self memory, the brain, and who we are
"How do our brains store-and then conjure up-past experiences to make us who we are? A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2021.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- How we make memories. Dawnings ; Sensation: the raw ingredient of memory ; Making sense ; The story of the hippocampus ; The sixth sense: the hidden cortex ; A sense of place ; Time and experiencing continuity ; Stress: remembering and 'forgetting'
- How memory makes us. Self-recognition: the start of autobiographical memory ; The tree of life: aborizations and prunings ; A sense of self ; Sex hormones and songbirds ; The shifting narratives of life ; False or true? ; The oldest memories
- Postscript.
