What if your memory suddenly vanished? What if you could no longer summon
up any recollections of your mother's embrace, a best friend's confidences,
or the moment you first met your spouse? What if you couldn't even remember
yourself.not your name, your school, where you worked, or even the face of
the total stranger staring back at you from the mirror?

If all of these memories were gone, would "self" even have a meaning?

The truth is that while you may think of human memory as a capacity.a way
to call up important facts or episodes from your past.it is much, much more.

Your various memory systems, in fact, provide the continuity of
consciousness that allows the concept of "you" to make sense, creating the
ongoing narrative that makes your life truly yours. Without those systems
and the overall experience of memory they make possible, you would have no
context for the most crucial decisions of your life. You would have to make.
without the benefit of experience and knowledge.the decisions that determine
not only your quality of life, but your very survival. And your ability to
learn, or even to form the personality that makes you unique, would similarly
be set adrift.

In Memory and the Human Lifespan, Professor Steve Joordens of the University
of Toronto Scarborough, who has been repeatedly honored as both teacher and
researcher, leads you on a startling voyage into the human mind, explaining
not only how the various aspects of your memory operate, but the impact
memory has on your daily experience of life.

His 24 riveting lectures carefully explain
the different kinds of systems that come together to make memory possible;
how those systems work together to build and access memories of specific
events, solve problems, learn basic tasks like brushing your teeth, or
acquire the skills to play a musical instrument;
the kinds of memory deficits that result when various parts of the brain
are damaged or deteriorate;
how memory shapes not only your experience of the past but also of
the present, as well as your expectations of the future;
how your memory systems develop throughout your life; and much more.

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