"There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us," Hannah Lillith Assadi writes in her debut novel, Sonora.
A large body of memory research supports this notion of memory enhancement for novel information (Gabrieli et al., 1997; Wittman et al., 2007).
"There were suggestions in some magazines that this was somehow deliberate," said Yoshikuni Igarashi, a historian at Vanderbilt University and the author of "Bodies of Memory" (Princeton University Press, 2000), an examination of World War II on Japanese culture.
Yet as Brianna tells her story, she skips over life-threatening sections as if silence will erase them from the body of her memory.
"I do not wish to disturb the wounds on the living body of these memories, and so I won't talk about 1918," Wittlin wrote, and then proceeded to do exactly that.
This is clear when she plays the piano, an art that both demands and provides a sort of superintegration, a total integration of sense and muscle, of body and mind, of memory and fantasy, of intellect and emotion, of one's whole self, of being alive.
To quantify this intuitive concept of history-dependence as memory, we use concepts from information theory [48] in the tradition of Landauer's use of informational entropy to estimate human memory capacity [49], and the extensive body of work characterizing memory in individual neurons [50] [53].
Just as the faculty of perception takes as its objects mind-independent bodies, the faculty of memory takes as its objects events in the past.
A small water pot in the Eskenazi show retains in the outline of the body the memory of shapes that appeared in prehistoric times.
In congruence with a large body of evidence, recognition memory (d′) was better for high familiar than low familiar stimuli.
Bloomer's scholarly work includes the principal authorship, with Charles Moore, of Body, Memory, and Architecture in 1975 and The Nature of Ornament in 2000.
