With all due respect for the imagination and temerity of the film-makers in tackling such a project - David Gordon Green is scheduled to direct with Steven Soderbergh as screenwriter/producer - I have my doubts as to whether this highly episodic, word-drunk novel is viable film material.
Some did not find an accelerating change of primary and episodic memory, word recognition, verbal and visuospatial ability, MMSE scores and perceptual speed [ 3– 5].
Cognitive function was assessed using the 7-item Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS-7; general mental status), and the 10-item immediate and delayed (episodic memory) word recall tests.
In contrast, naming, episodic memory, word reading and gross visuoperceptual/spatial skills are relatively spared, suggesting infrequent or minimal involvement of temporal and parietal lobe structures.
"Episodic memory" (including word recall).
In other words, episodic memory is logically sufficient for personal identity: if S remembers at time tn (episodically) an event at time t1, then S existed at time t1.
Semantic clustering is an effective strategy to enhance encoding of verbal episodic memory (VEM) when word lists are semantically related.
The neuropsychological assessment consisted of the evaluation of short-term memory (forward and backward digit span), episodic memory (10-items word list), semantic memory (Boston naming test, letter, and category fluency tests), perceptual and spatial abilities (WAIS-R block designs subtest, Rey complex figure), and abstractive reasoning (WAIS-R similarities subtest).
The story spew that constitutes so much of the cinematic churn as well as the episodic series — in other words, audiovisual creation in which the audiovisual is a means, not an end — is matched by a wider and wilder range of invention that, nonetheless, bears the burden of its belatedness and brings an inescapable air of loss and untimeliness to its most forward-looking creations.
In a fully counterbalanced design, participants generated a rhyme to one target list and imagined their subsequent encounter (episodic simulation) with target words on the other list.
PCC is consistently activated when subjects have to judge the valence of emotionally salient words or episodic memories, with the strongest responses seen when unpleasant stimuli are presented [14].
