Memory: Fragments of a Modern

Informationen zum Autor Alison Winter is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago and the author of Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so! do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain! or are they lost forever? This book shows that the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century. Zusammenfassung Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so! do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain! or are they lost forever? This book shows that the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Winter, Alison Winter, Winter Alison
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2012
• EAN: 9780226902586
• ISBN: 978-0-226-90258-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); memory, SCIENCE / History, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, History of Science, Cognition and cognitive psychology