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|title=Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory

|author=Charles Fernyhough

|publisher=Profile Books

|date=July 2012

|website=http://www.charlesfernyhough.com/

|summary=A surprisingly readable textbook presenting a different way of looking at memory. Difficult to use for research, but excellent for a newcomer to the topic.

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Over the years, I've seen the human memory at its best and worst. I watched my Nan suffer with Alzheimer's to the point she couldn't remember who anyone was, but also had a colleague who won a silver medal at the Memory Olympics for his ability to remember long strings of items. I also studied memory as part of a psychology degree but, perhaps ironically, I can no longer remember much of what I learned.