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Pieces of Light
Charles Fernyhough
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Psychologie
Beschreibung
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize 2013 and the 2013 Best Book of Ideas Prize.
Memory is an essential part of who we are. But what are memories, and how are they created? A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing a particular memory from our past, like a snapshot, we construct it anew each time we are called upon to remember. Remembering is an act of narrative as much as it is the product of a neurological process. Pieces of Light illuminates this theory through a collection of human stories, each illustrating a facet of memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions.
Drawing on case studies, personal experience and the latest research, Charles Fernyhough delves into the memories of the very young and very old, and explores how amnesia and trauma can affect how we view the past. Exquisitely written and meticulously researched, Pieces of Light blends science and literature, the ordinary and the extraordinary, to illuminate the way we remember and forget.
Rezensionen
A sophisticated blend of findings from science and ideas from literature...at times moving and very rewarding
Both playful and profound, a wonderfully memorable read
A captivating journey into the mind
Exhilarating...a compelling case
An immense pleasure
Outstanding...draws on both science and art to marvellous effect
As absorbing as it is thought-provoking
Fernyhough weaves literature and science to expose our rich, beautiful relationship with our past and future selves.
Combining the engaging style of a novelist with the rigour of a scientist, insightful and thought provoking...will linger in your memory and change the way you think about it.
In this enthralling tour of human memory, Charles Fernyhough - himself a hybrid of science and poetry - reveals the mysterious forces behind these stories that shape our lives.
A beautifully written, absorbing read - a fascinating journey through the latest science of memory
A gifted writer
A captivating journey into the mind...told with great style
Kundenbewertungen
TIME Ideas, introspection, thinking, Charles Fernyhough, Wellcome Trust, psychologist, memory, science, listening, A Box of Birds, The Auctioneer, meditation, Hearing the Voice, psychiatry, language, visual artists, speaking, Durham University, Strategic Award, inner voice, thought, words, conscience, the Guardian, patients