中文简介：

你是否曾有过这样的感觉：不知道怎么的，就是想不起来上周看的电影主角的名字，或是走进一个房间里，突然忘记自己要干什么。这种感觉有时可能会让人感到崩溃。如果你已经超过40岁，这可能不是个好现象。你可能要担心这些记忆的缺失会不会是阿尔兹海默症或老年痴呆症的前兆。实际上，对我们绝大多数人来说，这些都是正常的遗忘现象。因为虽然记忆力很惊人，但它远非完美。我们的大脑并不是被设计来记住我们听到的每一个名字、做出的每一个计划或经历的每一天。你的记忆力有时会失效，但这并不意味着它已经坏了或病了。遗忘实际上是人类的一部分。

神经科学家和知名小说家Lisa Genova深入研究了记忆是如何产生的，以及我们该如何检索它们。你将了解到被遗忘的记忆是暂时无法访问还是永远被抹去，以及为什么有些记忆只存在几秒钟（如密码），而有些记忆可以持续一生（你的婚礼）。你会体会到正常的遗忘（你把车停在哪里）和阿尔茨海默氏症导致的遗忘（你拥有一辆车）之间的明显区别。你会看到记忆是如何被意义、情感、睡眠、压力和背景所深刻影响的。一旦你理解了记忆的语言和功能，它的优势和弱点，以及潜在的超能力，你就可以极大地提高你的记忆力，并在遗忘时保持平静。

英文简介：

Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you're over forty, you're probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are completely normal. Why? Because while memory is amazing, it is far from perfect. Our brains aren't designed to remember every name we hear, plan we make, or day we experience. Just because your memory sometimes fails doesn't mean it's broken or succumbing to disease. Forgetting is actually part of being human.

In Remember, neuroscientist and acclaimed novelist Lisa Genova delves into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. You'll learn whether forgotten memories are temporarily inaccessible or erased forever and why some memories are built to exist for only a few seconds (like a passcode) while others can last a lifetime (your wedding day). You'll come to appreciate the clear distinction between normal forgetting (where you parked your car) and forgetting due to Alzheimer's (that you own a car). And you'll see how memory is profoundly impacted by meaning, emotion, sleep, stress, and context. Once you understand the language of memory and how it functions, its incredible strengths and maddening weaknesses, its natural vulnerabilities and potential superpowers, you can both vastly improve your ability to remember and feel less rattled when you inevitably forget.