Quotes About Memory

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.

memory is dynamic—it changes by the mere passage of time, or by the accumulation of new experiences.

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads....

No one can yet tell me why I am able to forget what I wrote in articles and reviews that I once felt passionate about, and yet am able to recall the entire lyrics of Some Enchanted Evening

In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now.

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't my time, or your time, or anyone else's time...

Always remember, folks: "Metadata is a love note to the future

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

he realized that this visit, all his visits, were really trips to a cemetery, paying respects at the grave, the way they had visited his father's, flowers in hand, his mother solemn, Leon bored and uncomfortable, not knowing, as he did now, that she wasn't visiting his father but some younger part of herself, what she used to be.

We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young

We who have seen war will never stop seeing it.

You are your synapses

Autonoetic consciousness is our best friend and worst enemy. It enables us to write and revise our narrative, our self-story, as we live each moment of each day.

Conceptual Differences Between Consolidation and Reconsolidation. According to consolidation theory each time we retrieve a memory we retrieve the original memory. Reconsolidation theory, on the other hand, suggests that each time we retrieve a memory, the memory is potentially changed (updated); thus, you retrieve the memory you stored after the last retrieval rather than the original memory.

In line with contemporary learning theory, emotional processing theory holds that new information does not replace old information in the fear structure but instead creates a competing memory that suppresses the old memory.75

The amygdala plays an important role in the acquisition, storage, expression, and extinction of threat memories. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (PFCVM) regulates the acquisition, storage, expression, and extinction of threat memories by the amygdala. The hippocampus learns about the context of acquisition and modulates the expression and extinction of threat memories in relation to context.

When a person is worried, working memory is occupied and decreases one's ability to perform effectively and efficiently.

psychological constructs fall under five broad functional domains or systems: negative valence systems (e.g., threat processing), positive valence systems (reward processing), cognitive systems (e.g., attention, perception, memory, working memory, executive function), arousal and regulatory systems (e.g., brain arousal, circadian rhythm, motivation), and social processing systems (e.g., attachment, separation).

Changing the content of our memories or altering their emotional tonalities, however desirable to alleviate guilty or painful consciousness, could subtly reshape who we are, at least to ourselves. With altered memories we might feel better about ourselves, but it is not clear that the better-feeling 'we' remain the same as before." —PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS

So how does the new learning that occurs in extinction (learning of the CS–no US association) prevent the expression of the original memory (CS-US association) and the defense responses it controls? To

Like all forms of learning,29 extinction requires the synthesis of proteins in neurons that are learning and storing the new information. In this case, protein synthesis is required in both the infralimbic cortex30 and the amygdala31 for the effects of extinction to persist as a long-term memory.