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Invention Of Memory
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Is everything we know about the world stored in our brains like data in a computer? In The Invention of Memory, Israel Rosenfield shatters this enduring image of the brain. A longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, where he has kept readers abreast of developments in neuroscience, Rosenfield presents a theory of the brain not as a repository, but as a creative generator of memory.
Shedding new light on the contributions of Paul Broca (“we speak with the left hemisphere”), John Hughlings Jackson (on why patients who lose the power of speech can still curse), Jules Dejerine (and the case of the man who could write but not read what he had written), and Freud (on memory, emotion, and the unconscious), Rosenfield re-examines the classic cases that underlie modern neurology.
In clear, engaging prose accessible to nonspecialists, he weaves these clinical insights together with recent advances—from David Marr’s computational model of vision, to Alvin Liberman’s research on speech processing, to Gerald Edelman’s theory of Neural Darwinism—to offer a striking new picture of how we perceive, recognize, and remember.
Is everything we know about the world stored in our brains like data in a computer? In The Invention of Memory, Israel Rosenfield shatters this enduring image of the brain. A longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, where he has kept readers abreast of developments in neuroscience, Rosenfield presents a theory of the brain not as a repository, but as a creative generator of memory.
Shedding new light on the contributions of Paul Broca (“we speak with the left hemisphere”), John Hughlings Jackson (on why patients who lose the power of speech can still curse), Jules Dejerine (and the case of the man who could write but not read what he had written), and Freud (on memory, emotion, and the unconscious), Rosenfield re-examines the classic cases that underlie modern neurology.
In clear, engaging prose accessible to nonspecialists, he weaves these clinical insights together with recent advances—from David Marr’s computational model of vision, to Alvin Liberman’s research on speech processing, to Gerald Edelman’s theory of Neural Darwinism—to offer a striking new picture of how we perceive, recognize, and remember.
229 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1988
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November 30, 2008
Very interesting. It shatterred my perception of the brain and what is the definition of ourselves, our personality... A LOT of food for thoughts!!!
March 12, 2008
Très technique mais passionnant
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