A collection of human stories, each illustrating a facet of memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions. Drawing on case studies, personal experience and the latest research, it delves into the memories of the very young and very old, and explores how amnesia and trauma can affect how we view the past.
A collection of human stories, each illustrating a facet of memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions. Drawing on case studies,...
For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a lecturer and researcher in developmental psychology. Drawing on the notes he kept on her development, he uses her story as an entry point into an account of how the child's mind develops before the age of three.
For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a lecturer and researcher in develo...
A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our heads At the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?" Did you answer? And what does it mean if you did? When someone says they hear voices in their head, they are often thought to be mentally ill. But, as Charles Fernyhough argues in The Voices Within, such voices are better understood as one of the chief hallmarks of human thought. Our inner...
A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our heads At the moment you caught sight of this book, wha...
