In Popular Myths about Memory, Bornstein confronts popular myths about memory with scientific evidence on memory permanence, recovered memory and repression, amnesia, eyewitness memory, superior memory, and other topics. This book is recommended for scholars interested in psychology, media and film studies, communication studies, and sociology.

Introduction: Memory, Metamemory, Media, and Myth
Chapter 1: Memory Myths: A Review and New Data
Chapter 2: Memory Accuracy and Permanence
Chapter 3: An Unholy Tetrad: Repression, Recovered Memory, False Memory, and Hypnosis
Chapter 4: Memory and the Brain: Implants and Erasure
Chapter 5: Retrograde Amnesia
Chapter 6: Anterograde Amnesia
Chapter 7: Memory, Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia
Chapter 8: Memory and the Legal System: Eyewitnesses
Chapter 9: Memory and the Legal System: False Confessions
Chapter 10: Superior Memory
Conclusion