La ciencia de la memoria

"We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of inconstant forms," Borges stated in one of his poems. And he was right. We are exposed to an infinite number of stimuli, sensations and information that we incorporate into our knowledge base through memory and learning. Two closely linked properties, since one cannot exist without the other, and that outline our personality and allow us to respond and adapt to the various situations that we will encounter throughout life. In recent decades, the advancement of psychology and neuroscience has allowed us to understand many of the mechanisms that our brain uses to record, encode, consolidate, retain, store and retrieve previously accumulated information. In this book, the prestigious neuroscientist Mara Dierssen takes an illuminating tour of the research and scientific results of recent years, to offer us an updated and practical image of how we learn and remember.