Popular Myths about Memory

In Popular Myths about Memory, Bornstein confronts popular myths about memory with scientific evidence on memory permanence, recovered memory and repression, amnesia, eyewitness memory, superior memory, and other topics. This book is recommended for scholars interested in psychology, media and film studies, communication studies, and sociology.

Brian H. Bornstein is professor of psychology and courtesy professor of law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Introduction: Memory, Metamemory, Media, and Myth Chapter 1: Memory Myths: A Review and New Data Chapter 2: Memory Accuracy and Permanence Chapter 3: An Unholy Tetrad: Repression, Recovered Memory, False Memory, and Hypnosis Chapter 4: Memory and the Brain: Implants and Erasure Chapter 5: Retrograde Amnesia Chapter 6: Anterograde Amnesia Chapter 7: Memory, Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia Chapter 8: Memory and the Legal System: Eyewitnesses Chapter 9: Memory and the Legal System: False Confessions Chapter 10: Superior Memory Conclusion