20 January 2002
Forgetting and The Seven Sins of Memory
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Got a rotten memory, or is it photographic? Why are we so fearful of, yet fascinated by, the experience of amnesia? What are the Seven Sins of Memory? And are they deadly? Tune into the first program of All In the Mind for these and other curious tales about forgetting...
Transcript
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Guests
Daniel L. Schacter
Professor of Psychology William James Hall Department of Psychology Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138
mailto: dls@wjh.harvard.edu
Dr Jonathan K. Foster
Memory & Brain Laboratory Department of Psychology University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
mailto:jonathanf@ichr.uwa.edu.au
Jonathan Lethem
New York based writer and editor
Sally
Experienced a brain injury after a car accident
Further Information
Daniel L.Schacter's website at Harvard University
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dsweb/
Jonathan Foster's website at University of Western Australia
http://www.paediatrics.uwa.edu.au/staff/staff.cfm/StaffID/56
Brain Injury Association of New South Wales
http://www.biansw.org.au/about.html
Headway Victoria - Acquired Brain Injury Association
http://www.headwayvictoria.org.au/
Headwest - Head Injured Association of Western Australia
http://www.headwest.asn.au/
Brain Injury Association of Queensland (BIAQ)
http://www.biaq.com.au/
Alzheimers Association of Australia
http://www.alzheimers.org.au/
Publication
Title: The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writings About Memory Loss
Author : Jonathan Lethem (Editor)
Publisher: Vintage Books (Random House), 2000
Title: The Seven Sins of Memory: How The Mind Forgets and Remembers
Author : Daniel L. Schacter
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 2001
Title: Memory - In Encyclopaedia of Psychology.
Author : Foster, J.K.
Publisher: Grolier: New Jersey. (In Press at time of original broadcast, January 2002)
Excellent overview of the field of "memory" in experimental psychology
