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Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts

By Charles Fernyhough
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Unabridged — 10 hours, 4 minutes
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By Charles Fernyhough
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Unabridged — 10 hours, 4 minutes

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Shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

Leading psychologist Charles Fernyhough blends the most current science with literature and personal stories in Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts.

A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing fixed, unchanging memories, they have found that we create recollections anew each time we are called upon to reme…