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Forgetting audiobook
- By: Scott A. Small
- Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Category: Cognitive Science, Science
- Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Forgetting Audiobook Summary
“Fascinating and useful . . . The distinguished memory researcher Scott A. Small explains why forgetfulness is not only normal but also beneficial.”—Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs
Who wouldn’t want a better memory? Dr. Scott Small has dedicated his career to understanding why memory forsakes us. As director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University, he focuses largely on patients who experience pathological forgetting, and it is in contrast to their suffering that normal forgetting, which we experience every day, appears in sharp relief.
Until recently, most everyone—memory scientists included—believed that forgetting served no purpose. But new research in psychology, neurobiology, medicine, and computer science tells a different story. Forgetting is not a failure of our minds. It’s not even a benign glitch. It is, in fact, good for us—and, alongside memory, it is a required function for our minds to work best.
Forgetting benefits our cognitive and creative abilities, emotional well-being, and even our personal and societal health. As frustrating as a typical lapse can be, it’s precisely what opens up our minds to making better decisions, experiencing joy and relationships, and flourishing artistically.
From studies of bonobos in the wild to visits with the iconic painter Jasper Johns and the renowned decision-making expert Daniel Kahneman, Small looks across disciplines to put new scientific findings into illuminating context while also revealing groundbreaking developments about Alzheimer’s disease. The next time you forget where you left your keys, remember that a little forgetting does a lot of good.
*Includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book
Cover art: © 2021 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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Forgetting Full Details
| Narrator | Timothy Andrés Pabon |
| Length | 5 hours 49 minutes |
| Author | Scott A. Small |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593399675 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Forgetting is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: forget, science books, the forgetting, forgetting books, forgetting book, memory books for adults, aging, memory book, memory, medical books, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, dementia, autism, oliver sacks, psychology books, neurology books, psychology book, cognitive neuroscience, science gifts for adults, neuroscience, mental health, behavioral psychology, mental health books, social psychology, brain, Alzheimers, neurobiology, neurology, forgetting, science book, psychology, cognitive science, alzheimers books, Science, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Personality The BISAC Subject Code is Cognitive Science, Science
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The publisher of the Forgetting is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593399675.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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