Memory, Consciousness and Temporality

Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality presents the argument that current memory theories are undermined by two false assumptions: the `memory trace paradox' and `the fallacy of the homunculus'. In these pages Gianfranco Dalla Barba introduces a hypothesis - the Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality (MCT) hypothesis - on the relationship between memory and consciousness that is not undermined by these assumptions and further demonstrates how MCT can account for a variety of memory disorders and phenomena.
With a unique approach intended to conjugate phenomenological analysis and recent neuropsychological data, the author makes an important contribution to our understanding of the central issues in current cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.

List of contents

1. The Problem of the Past and the Paradox of the Trace.- 2. The Homunculus Fallacy.- 3. Varieties of Consciousness.- 4. Temporality.- 5. Knowing and Remembering.- 6. Memory and Consciousness.- 7. Consciousness and Reality.- References.

Summary

Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality presents the argument that current memory theories are undermined by two false assumptions: the `memory trace paradox' and `the fallacy of the homunculus'. In these pages Gianfranco Dalla Barba introduces a hypothesis - the Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality (MCT) hypothesis - on the relationship between memory and consciousness that is not undermined by these assumptions and further demonstrates how MCT can account for a variety of memory disorders and phenomena.
With a unique approach intended to conjugate phenomenological analysis and recent neuropsychological data, the author makes an important contribution to our understanding of the central issues in current cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.

Product details

• Authors: Gianfranco Dalla Barba, G. Dalla Barba, Gianfranco Dalla Barba
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2009
• EAN: 9780792375258
• ISBN: 978-0-7923-7525-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 522 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 224 p.
• Series: Neurobiological Foundation of Aberrant Behaviors; Neurobiological Foundation of Aberrant Behaviors
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; B, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, Difference (Psychology)