Memory: The Key to Consciousness (2005)

Chapter: Suggested Readings

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Suggested Citation: "Suggested Readings." Richard F. Thompson, et al. 2005. Memory: The Key to Consciousness. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. doi: 10.17226/10746.

Suggested Readings

Ackerman, S. (1992). Discovering the Brain. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Allman, J.M. (1999). Evolving Brains. New York: Scientific American Library.

Andreasen, N.C. (1984). The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry. New York: Harper & Row.


Bruck, M., and Ceci, S.J. (1999). The suggestibility of children’s memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, 419-430.


Campbell, R., and M. Conway. (1995). Broken Memories: Case Studies in Memory Impairment. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.


Dawes, R.M. (1994). House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth. New York: The Free Press.

Donahue, A. (2000). Electroconvulsive therapy and memory loss: A personal journey. Journal of ECT, 16, 133-143.

Dowling, J.E. (1998). Creating Mind: How the Brain Works. New York: W.W. Norton.

Dowling, J.E. (2004). The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture? (Science Essentials). Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.

Dudai, Y. (2002). Memory From A to Z: Keywords, Concepts, and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press.


Ebbinghaus, H. (1964). Memory. New York: Dover.

Endler, N. (1990). Holiday of Darkness. New York: Wall and Thompson.

Suggested Citation: "Suggested Readings." Richard F. Thompson, et al. 2005. Memory: The Key to Consciousness. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. doi: 10.17226/10746.

Fink, M. (1999). Electroshock: Restoring the Mind. New York: Oxford Press.


Gluck, M.A., and C.E. Myers. (2001). Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gopnik, A., A.N. Meltzoff, and P.K. Kuhl. (1999). The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind. New York: Harper Collins.

Gottesman, I.I. (1991). Schizophrenia Genesis: The Origins of Madness. New York: W.H. Freeman.


Hermelin, B. (2001). Bright Splinters of the Mind: A Personal Story of Research With Autistic Savants. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Heston, L.L., and J.A. White. (1983). The Vanishing Mind: A Practical Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Hobson, J.A. (2002). Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep. New York: Oxford University Press.


Kotre, J. (1995). White Gloves: How We Create Ourselves Through Memory. New York: The Free Press.


LeDoux, J. (2002). Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. New York: Viking Press.

Loftus, E.F., and K. Ketcham. (1994). The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse. New York: St. Martin’s Press.


McGaugh, J.L. (2003). Memory and Emotion: The Making of Lasting Memories. New York: Columbia University Press.

McNally, R.J. (2002). Remembering Trauma. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.


Rabinowitz, D. (2003). No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Time. New York: The Free Press.


Schacter, D.L. (1996). Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past. New York: Harper Collins.

Shenk, D. (2001). The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic. New York: Doubleday.


Thompson, R.F. (2000). The Brain: A Neuroscience Primer. New York: Worth.

Tulving, E., and F. Craik. (2000). The Oxford Handbook of Memory. New York: Oxford University Press.


Weiskrantz, L. (1997). Consciousness Lost and Found: A Neuropsychological Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wilding, J., and E. Valentine. (1997). Superior Memory. East Sussex, UK: Hove.

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