Alan Baddeley
Autor(a) de Your Memory: A User's Guide
About the Author
Alan Baddeley is Professor of Psychology at the University of York, UK, and one of the world's leading authorities on human memory. He is celebrated for devising the ground-breaking and highly influential working memory model with Graham Hitch in the early 1970s, a model which still proves valuable mostrar mais today in recognising the functions of short-term memory. He was awarded a CBE for his contributions to the study of memory, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the British Academy and of the Academy of Medical Sciences. mostrar menos
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- Data de nascimento
- 1934-03-23
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Leeds, UK
- Educação
- University College London
- Ocupações
- university professor
research psychologist - Organizações
- Royal Society (Fellow)
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- Obras
- 18
- Membros
- 429
- Popularidade
- #56,934
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 87
- Línguas
- 7
But memory fails all the time. It fails most of the time, but people trust it so much that they never bother to check it. This has huge implications in things like eyewitness testimony.
This book is a textbook at the undergraduate level. It's written like a textbook, meaning the writing is accessible but very redundant and at times a bit patronizing. This is not a driven deep-thinking book like [b:Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain|1052850|Neurophilosophy Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain|Patricia S. Churchland|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1387668990s/1052850.jpg|1039334]. It's not a research-level survey of the state of the art like [b:Memory Reconsolidation|17132954|Memory Reconsolidation|Cristina Alberini|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356138406s/17132954.jpg|23534463]. It is a long, clear, and wide-ranging treatment of the topic of memory. Suitable for laymen, but not a popular-science book.
While the presentation can be a bit off-putting, and the writing occasionally awful (one of the authors seems intent on excusing every one of his personal failings by way of neurology), it is a fantastic book. The coverage is broad, the research is up-to-date, and you definitely leave each chapter knowing a lot more about the ol' grey soup between your ears.… (mais)