There is the matter of snail memory, which Jacqueline attempts to map by dissecting their brains, her work descending at the slip of a scalpel into "mash and inert stuff".
"He was appointed because of his distinguished career in psychiatry," he said, adding that the matter of recovered memories "never came up, I never heard it mentioned, so I would presume that this was something either not known or not considered relevant to the purposes of the board".
"This is a really fundamental find it's like the dark matter of memory," says Geoffrey Woodman, a cognitive neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who was not involved with the work.
Yet the matter of the epistemology of memory belief is important for its own sake as well.
(Yes, truth in memoir is often a matter of memory and perception, but that doesn't mean that the writer shouldn't strive for accuracy at every opportunity, even when ideas and information are presented in scenes, as in the Williams-Feeney encounter).
Culture is a matter of memory, history and layering.
After the usual preliminary skirmishes, the pressure on both parties will be to end the matter as the memory of MF Global's collapse fades.
Yet his vision, confronting the grandest and deepest matters of memory and intimacy, pain and striving, family and work and art, bursts national boundaries — he has made Wiener-Dog of the world.
The subject matter of In Memory of Sigmund Freud shatters any notion of separating the personal from the political, and the great Refugee Blues should be as shaming of the powerful today as when it was written in 1939 ("Say this city has ten million souls, / Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: / Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us").
The logic of this design was that if the contents of memory matter for temporal attention, a priming effect of this repetition may be expected and alleviate the attentional blink (i.e., cause an interaction effect with Lag, not just a main effect).
The golden age of concertgoing, meanwhile, is at least partly a matter of idealized memory.
