Memory, brain, and belief
By: edited by Daniel L. Schacter and Elaine Scarry.
Contributors: Scarry, Elaine.; Schacter, Daniel L.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Belief and doubt; Brain; Cognitive neuroscience; Delusions; Knowledge; Memory -- Physiology; Memory Disorders -- physiopathology; Memory
Description: "The Scientific Research literature on memory is enormous. Yet until now no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief.

This book brings together eminent scholars from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, literature, and medicine to discuss such provocative issues as "false memories," in which people can develop vivid recollections of events that never happened; retrospective biases, in which memories of past experiences are influenced by one's current beliefs; and implicit memory, or the way in which nonconscious influences of past experience shape current beliefs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

6