Memories are Made of this: How Memory Works in Humans and Animals
Memory enables us to make experience meaningful and to form coherent identities for ourselves and intelligible perceptions of others. Indeed, our ability to imagine, anticipate, and create the future is directly commensurate with our ability to retrieve and recollect past experiences.
But for all its vital importance in human cognition, for all that it seems so ordinary and obvious, memory remains in many ways as complex and mysterious today as it seemed to ancient philosophers. We need only to think about the "tip-of-the-tongue" experience to wonder how memories are formed, where they reside in our brains, and why some are retained, while others are forgotten. What is the difference between long- and short-term memory? Can memory be strengthened? Memories Are Made of This is an account of current memory science that offers answers to these and a host of other questions, comprehensively distilling much diverse and
rigorous science. It delves into the biology of memory functions and researches into the
mechanics and genetics of memory and the importance of emotions, particularly those resulting from t
Bourtchouladze, Rusiko
PERSONAL:
Born in Tbilisi, USSR (now Georgia). Education: Earned Ph.D.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Helicon Therapeutics, Inc., Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY [email&#;protected].
CAREER:
Helicon Therapeutics, Inc., Woodbury, NY, director of model systems; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, adjunct associate professor; formerly affiliated with Columbia University.
WRITINGS:
Memories Are Made of This: How Memory Works in Humans and Animals,Columbia University Press (New York, NY),
Contributor of articles on memory research to various scholarly periodicals.
SIDELIGHTS:
Memory researcher Rusiko Bourtchouladze's first book, Memories Are Made of This: How Memory Works in Humans and Animals, presents an explanation of the field of memory research, including the author's own scientific work on the genetics of memory. Writing for a lay reader, Bourtchouladze describes the field of memory research begining with the first recorded theories of memory in the philosophy of the ancient Greeks. She then moves on to early modern psychology, as nineteenth-century researchers began doing basic studies on short-term and long-term memories by as
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Bourtchouladze's major scientific work so far has demonstrated that short-term and long-term memories are separate systems. The path to that discovery was technical, but she describes it lucidly, writing considerably more smoothly and thoughtfully than many other scientists who write for general readers, conveying the excitement of science, and in her historical accounts of related fields, bringing researchers and their work to life. Protein synthesis, genes, and many other factors impinging upon memory are there to be discovered: most of her readers will aquire a much better understanding of how the field got to this point. Much is still to be discovered about the workings of the many types of memory, however, and Bourtchouladze points out gaps in our knowledge as she proceeds. Toward the end of this engaging book, she observes that "memory is what makes it possible for us to live but not to exist." Meanwhile, she has made us appreciate what the lives of some scientists are all about. William Beatty
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Memories are Made of This
"Memory enables us to make experience meaningful and to form coherent identities for ourselves and intelligible perceptions of others. Indeed, our ability to imagine, anticipate, and create the future is directly commensurate with our ability to retrieve and recollect past experiences.".
"But for all its vital importance in human cognition, for all that it seems so ordinary and obvious, memory remains in many ways as complex and mysterious today as it seemed to ancient philosophers. We need only to think about the "tip-of-the-tongue" experience to wonder how memories are formed, where they reside in our brains, and why some are retained, while others are forgotten. What is the difference between long-and short-term memory? Can memory be strengthened?
Memories Are Made of This is an account of current memory science that offers answers to these and a host of other questions, comprehensively distilling much diverse and rigorous science. It delves into the biology of memory functions, the mechanics and genetics of memory and the importance of emotions, particularly those resulting from trauma, in the memory process. A special focus of the book are inv
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