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The Seven Sins of Memory

by Daniel L. Schacter

  • FINISHED
  • Finished October 2018
  • First published 2001

neuroscience memory psychology

Schacter groups the ways memory fails into seven types, such as forgetting, distortion and intrusive recall.   He explains what brain research shows about each and why these failures may be side effects of useful systems.