Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova

" Enjoyable read, well written with many everyday examples, some humorous. Not in this book is how science has not yet figured out the nature of how brain accesses memory that I expect involves the conscious electromagnetic field with executive control being able to focus on the internal model representation of the external sensed world. IMO memory is actually a sort of bidirectional dual ported internal model, one input from senses, the other from executive control. Thus there is no memory outside of a time element structure. Executive control is able to access the internal model the same way senses experience that model....." " This book is truly eye opening and I would recommend it to any individual. I have altered some habits in my life after reading this book and found that it helps to better understand a complex topic through real world examples. The book is interactive and feels almost as if you are having a conversation with the author........" " 著者の方が小説家でもあるからか、とても読みやすい本でした。記憶に関すること(記憶の作られ方、記憶の保存され方、記憶に関する病気のことなど)を数々の実験とともに解説する本です。あーあるある！と感じる身近な話題が多くこれからの人生に役に立ちそうだと思える内容でした。記憶に関する実験に興味深いものが多く、特にダイバーと協力して行った実験で、記憶する場所と思い出す場所が同じである方が記憶力を発揮しやすいことを証明する実験が印象に残りました。この本の記憶が薄れてきたらまた読み返そうと思います。そう思える本でした...." " 著者のノリとか呼吸とか人柄がいきいきと声になって映像になって伝わってくるような日本語訳。かんたんに話に巻き込まれてしまう自然さ。原著はいったいどんな雰囲気なのか？興味を感じてkindle版（意外なお手頃価格でうれしい）でページをめくる。原文と翻訳者の訳文のつじつま合わせをすると、このフレーズがこの日本語になるのか？！うまいなあ！の驚きのマーカーが絶えない。肝心の記憶科学も面白い。二重三重に面白いお得な一冊....."

 

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- If you want to enhance your ability to remember ..... 1. pay attention 2. see it 3. make it meaningful 4. use your imagination 5. location, location, location 6. make it about you 7. look for the drama 8. mix it up 9. practice makes perfect 10. use plenty of strong retrieval cues 11. be positive 12. externalize your memory 13. context matters 14. chill out 15. get enough sleep 16. when trying to remember someone's name,turn your Bakers into bakers

- Memory is a really big deal, and it's not such a big deal. Maybe we can take it seriously but hold it lightly.

- Every time we learn something new, we're creating and strengthening new neiral connections, new synapses.

- Eveb a daily brisk walk has been correlated with a 40 percent decreased risk of Alzheimer's ...

- ..... anything that is good for your heart is good for your brain and preventing Alzheimer's.

- Only 2 percent of people with Alzheimer's have the pirely inherited, early-onset form of the disease. Ninety-eight percent of the time, Alzheimer's is caused by a combination of the genes we inherited and how we live.

- Sleeping is critical for reducing your risk of Alzheimer's disease....

- people with Alzheimer's start to use simpler and simpler words. Bag instead of suitcase or luggage. Paper or thing instead of document....

- Using the strategies and insights you've read about in this book - paying attention, decreasing distractors, rehearsing, self-testing, creating meaning, using visual and spatial imagery, keeping a diary -will improve memory at any age!

- We possess a positivity bias with respect to how we see ourselves. We tend to selectively consolidate and then remember the good qualities about ourselves and actively exclude and therefore forget the bad....

- Forgetting people's names is an entirely normal and frequent phenomenon and is not an early sign of Alzheimer's

- One of the most common experiences of memory failure is known as blocking or tip of the language(TOT)...

- The development of language in our brains corresponds with our ability to consolidate, store, and retrieve episodic memories .... we only have access to memories of what happened when we owned the language skills to describe them.

- Regular use of these tools - repetition, spaced learning, self-testing, meaning, and visual and spatial imagery - will no doubt strengthen your semantic memory.

- A man famous for memorizing digits of pi can also forget his wife's birthday or why he walked into his living room.

이 저자의  'Still Alice'는 오래전에 읽은 책이지만 어제 읽은 거 같은 느낌을 주는 인상 깊은 작품이다. 이 책도 '기억'이라는 의미에서 'Still Alice'하고 연결되어 있는 작품이다. 문장이나 표현도 난해하지 않고 이론적인 설명도 독자들의 눈높이에서 가능한 쉽게 설명해주고 있는 거 같다. 기억력을 높이는 방법이나 알츠하이머를 예방하는 방법 등은 많은 도움이 될 거 같다.