The Seven Sins of Memory torrent

Schacter, Daniel L.
The seven sins of memory: how the mind forgets and
remembers I Daniel L. Schacter.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-618-04019-6

"Memory, for all that it does for us every day...for all the feats that can sometimes amaze us, can also be a troublemaker," said Schacter of his book, which describes the seven major categories of memory foibles being investigated by psychologists.
However, noted Schacter, the same brain mechanisms account for memory's sins as well as its strengths, so investigating its negatives exposes its positives. "We shouldn't think of these fundamentally as flaws in the architecture of memory," he explained, "but rather as costs we pay for benefits in memory that make it work as well as it does most of the time."