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Author
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
"Everyday Genius, by six-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis, upgrades your everyday life through practical skills, whether it's memorizing names at a new job, doing lightning-fast mental math when it counts, honing decisive intuition, and beyond. "--Amazon.
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"Reveals how memories aren't fixed. They soften and consolidate -- and are distorted -- each time we revisit them, even those memories most deeply ingrained. The way we call on memory is closer to a 'negotiation with the past.' From episodic memories like 'shining islands in dark waters' and forgotten 'Rilkean' memories that underpin our personalities and essential style to the memories we might hold that have been authored by others close to us,...
Author
Series
Orca Think volume 13
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"This illustrated nonfiction book for middle-grade readers explores the art and science of memory, and what it can tell us about ourselves and the world we live in."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"The finest handbook we've seen on the subject." -- AARP Magazine Appliances and car lights turn themselves off. Smartphones and laptops remind us of appointments. Google lets us search for information we can't remember. Yet with all these advances, we still grow frustrated and anxious when words won't come, when we misplace items, or when we forget the name of the person in front of us. Now, University of Michigan social workers Janet Fogler and...
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Series
Publication Date
2000
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Get Organized : S imple and ingenious techniques to improve your memory and retain information for a lifetime. Want to remember more of what you read, perform better on tests, or just be able to find your car keys? Ron Fry's effective system has helped thousands of people improve their memory by adapting today's best memorization techniques to their own needs. Packed with quizzes designed to pinpoint your specific trouble...
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing. A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath...
Author
Publication Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Daniel L. Schacter, chairman of Harvard University's Psychology Department and a leading expert on memory, has developed the test framework that describes the basic memory miscues we all encounter. Just like the seven deadly sins, the seven memory sins appear routinely in everyday life. Although we may hate these difficulties, as Schacter notes, they're surprisingly vital to a keen mind.
Schacter, whose previous trade book, SEARCHING FOR MEMORY,...
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Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Shepard's novel "opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him: in his mind he sees himself in a movie-set trailer, his young face staring back at him in a mirror surrounded by light bulbs. In his dreams and in visions he sees his late father--sometimes in miniature, sometimes flying planes, sometimes...
Author
Publication Date
2001
Language
English
Description
We all have concerns about our memories about becoming forgetful, about how to preserve our memories especially as we age. Now, Dr. D. P. Devanand answers your questions about memory loss due to aging and offers a revolutionary, medically sound practical program to keep your mind in shape and stave off memory loss. The Memory Program is a complete promemory plan for everyone over 40 learn how memory works in the brain and how aging affects your memory...
Publisher
Psychology Press
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Working memory -- the conscious processing of information -- is increasingly recognized as one of the most important aspects of intelligence. This fundamental cognitive skill is deeply connected to a great variety of human experience -- from our childhood, to our old age, from our evolutionary past, to our digital future. In this volume, leading psychologists review the latest research on working memory and consider what role it plays in development...
14) The Emotions
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"An analyst at the heart of the European Union revisits his past and anticipates the future after his father's death, in this brilliant, nuanced novel of love, politics, masculinity, and memory. A European civil servant specializing in strategic foresight, Jean Detrez works on the future with scientific rigor. However, the unexpected seems to invade his life, both professional and personal. The Brexit referendum, the election of Trump, the separation...
Author
Publisher
Odd Dot
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ace history tests by memorizing dates, feel confident about remembering people's names, kick butt at card games by memorizing entire decks, and hang on to happy memories for a lifetime. This ultimate memory guide for kids is full of memory building techniques, fun challenges, and hilarious art."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The comedic actress best known for her role on Taxi describes her extremely rare autobiographical memory and the ways in which it has helped her in countless scenarios, in a guide that offers advice about how to bolster memory and make it work for personal well-being (summary from online).
Author
Publication Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Has your child lived before?
In this fascinating, controversial, and groundbreaking book, Carol Bowman reveals overwhelming evidence of past life memories in children. Not only are such experiences real, they are far more common than most people realize.
Bowman's extraordinary investigation was sparked when her young son, Chase, described his own past-life death on a Civil War battlefield-an account so accurate it was authenticated by an expert...