Friday, March 4, 2011

IDEA POST #7

Why I found this helpful in my research:
This radio podcast was very benifitial for furthur explaining and sparking more interest in memory retention, and memory in general. Although some of the comentary is far from what I am interested in the main thinking of memory and all that that may intail is what attracted  me to this information.

Also it is in a non visual form or information.  What I am looking for in my models/ individuals is non verbal all auditory retention, so that is another aditional tool this podcast has helped with.




Radio LAB

Memory and Forgetting

What is a memory? Science writer Jonah LehrerJoe LeDoux, who studies fear memories in rats, tells us how with a one shock, one tone, and one drug injection, you can bust up this piece of matter, and prevent a rat from every making a memory. LeDoux’s research goes sci-fi, when he and his colleague Karim Nader tells us is it’s a physical thing in the brain… not some ephemeral flash. It’s a concrete thing made of matter. And NYU neuroscientist start trying to erase memories. And Nader applies this research to humans suffering from PTSD.

Jonah Lehrer book: Proust Was a Neuroscientist

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Proust Was a Neuroscientist is a non-fiction book written by Jonah Lehrer, first published in 2007. In it, Lehrer argues that many 20th and 21st-century discoveries of neuroscience are actually re-discoveries of insights made earlier by various artists, including Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Paul Cézanne, Igor Stravinsky, and, as mentioned in the title, Marcel Proust.


A Neurologist’s Notebook

The Abyss

Music and amnesia. 

by Oliver Sacks 

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks#ixzz1FBw6Krym








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