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a history of memory

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Marking the mind: a history of memory
2008, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Does memory have a history?
Individual memory as a historical problem
A conceptual history
The history of memory and the discipline of psychology
The rule of metaphor
The persistence of metaphor
How the gift of mnemosyne changed
Inscription : writing as memory
First sketch of a literary model : Aristotle
The culture of literacy and its standard model of memory
Physical analogies
Computer memory
The cultivation of memory
From the singer of tales to the art of memory
The order of places and the order of things
Monastic memory
Medieval manuscripts as mnemonic devices
Working with texts
Decline of mnemonics and memory discourse
Privileged knowledge
Esoteric knowledge
The privatization of memory
Alienated memory
Biology and the science of forgetting
Memory as injury
Another kind of victim
An experimental science of memory
Is memory a scientific category?
The memorizing trap
The road not taken : gestalt psychology
Sir Frederic's insight : reproduction is reconstruction
The dark ages of memory research and its critics
A new language
Memory kinds
A coat of many colours
Sensory memory and memory of the intellect
Enter phrenology
Phylogenesis and individual memory
Philosophers make distinctions
Amnesics speak
Memory systems in experimental psychology
The memory that is short
Truth in memory
Imagination and memory
A science of testimony
Psychoanalysis as an art of memory
Politics, truth, and traumatic memory
A place for memory
Where is memory?
Generic phrenology
Loss of geographical certainties
A note on networks
The decade of the brain
Memory in its place
Fuzzy boundaries
The inner senses
Faculty psychology and its demise
Memory, perception, and the individual
Is memory in the head?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
153.1/209
Library of Congress
BF371 .D36 2008, BF371.D36 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
305

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Open Library
OL16857630M
Internet Archive
markingmindhisto00danz
ISBN 13
9780521898157, 9780521726412
LCCN
2008020515
OCLC/WorldCat
227031832
Goodreads
6618372

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