Daniel
Schacter (Chairman of the Psychology Department at Harvard University.)
"Searching
for Memory" Self
review.
"Daniel Schacter, a Harvard professor
of psychology and researcher into the
workings of memory and the brain, authoritatively summarizes the psychological
study of memory which is producing knowledge that is relevant to the
controversy
over "recovered memory" and "false memories". Many of the advances
have come
from the study of brain-damaged patients: some remember past events
clearly, yet
forget the basics of everyday knowledge; others have precisely the
reverse
affliction. Putting this work together with brain scans and experiments
on normal
people, a useful understanding has emerged of the connections between
the brain
and the mind, and of the different types of memory. Schacter also bravely
refutes
the notion of "recovered memory," arguing persuasively that false memories
can be
easily created." (source: Amazon Blurb and my own alterations)