Title: In the palaces of memory : how we build the worlds inside our heads /
Authors: Johnson, George, 1952 January 20-; Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Publisher: Vintage Books,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Memory; Neuropsychology; Neurology; Memory; Neurology; Neuropsychology
Abstract: A distillation of three researchers' inquiries into the processes that enable us to recognize a face that has aged ten years or remember a melody for decades.
Contents: PREFACE -- Invisible Palaces -- PRELUDE -- The Tower in the Jungle -- PART ONE -- Mucking Around in the Wetware -- A Dark Continent -- Looking for Engrams -- The Brain's Volume Controls -- Early Obsessions -- Growing New Wires -- Strengthening Connections -- An Exotic Phenomenon -- The Porcupine Effect -- Sharing a Hallucination -- Artificial Amnesia -- A Hostile Replication -- The King of the Hill -- Off-the-Shelf Enzymes -- Religious Feuds -- "A Beautiful Little Switch" -- Hebb's Return -- Intuition and Ambiguity -- FIRST INTERLUDE -- A Brain in a Box -- PART TWO -- The Memory Machine -- Theorizing About Theorizing -- Atomic Choreography -- The Structures of Experience -- Magnets and Brain Cells -- Universal Machines -- Toward a Mushier Computer -- The Exorcists -- Systems of Symbols -- A Model of Memory -- Animal Logic -- Resonance and Reality -- Something Deeply Hidden -- Knowledge Engineering -- Another Change in Fashion -- The Man in the Pineapple Shirt -- The Price of an Idea -- SECOND INTERLUDE -- "God Is a Tinkerer" -- PART THREE -- The End of Philosophy -- Spooky Stuff -- Philosophy's Hinterlands -- Celestial Navigation -- Rocky Waters -- What a Number Is -- FINAL REFLECTIONS.