Marking the mind a history of memory
"Memory is one of the few psychological concepts with a truly ancient lineage. Presenting a history of the interrelated changes in memory tasks, memory technology and ideas about memory from antiquity to the late twentieth century, this book confronts psychology's 'short present'...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2008.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38399702*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
