description: Is your memory letting you down? Written in clear, accessible language this fascinating guide to one of the most vital characteristics of the human species tells you how your memory works and how to make it work for you. We all possess inside our head a system for declassifying, storing and retrieving information that exceeds the best computer capacity, flexibility and speed. Yet the same system is so limited and unreliable that it cannot consistently remember a nine-figure telephone number long enough to ring it. So how does memory work? How can it be so efficient, yet so inadequate at the same time? Why do honest eyewitnesses differ in their recall of an event, and why do we have little or no memory of the first three to five years of life? Professor Alan Baddeley, director of the British Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and an acknowledged world authority on memory, answers all these questions and many more. Your Memory combines the latest scientific research with practical tests and professional tips on how to improve that powerful, natural ability - your memory.
language: English
title: Your Memory: A User's Guide
titlecomplete: Your Memory: A User's Guide
genres: Reference, Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Nonfiction, Design, Textbooks
ratings_count: 203
publisher: Macmillan