MEMORY
LINKS
updated 9.21.98
Human
Brain
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Memory
& Computers
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Collective
Memory
Remembering: How and Why
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Forgetting:
How and Why
Repressed/Recalled/False Memory
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Memory
Games on the Web
Memory & Law
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Fiction
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Nostalgia
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Bibliographies
Human
Brain
Interactive
brain atlas
Lots of brain slices to view. Takes a while for the
Java applet to load. Have patience, and try the "update" button
after moving the scrollbars.
Digital
Anatomist Interactive Atlases
"2-D and 3-D views of the brain
from cadaver sections, MRI scans, and computer reconstructions."
Lots of clear, colorful, labelled images of the brain. Use the "Search
Atlases" with the subject "brain" to get a list of images.
The
NPAC Visible Human Viewer
Any way you slice it, the brain (as well
as the rest of the human body) is fascinating. "This Java applet
allows you to select and view high-resolution images of 2-dimensional
slices of a human body, using image data taken from the National Library
of Medicine's Visible Human Project. "
The
Human Brain Project
"The Human Brain Project is a broad-based
long-term research initiative which supports research and development
of advanced technologies to open information superhighways to neuroscientists
and behavioral scientists by providing an array of information tools
for the 21st Century." Lots of links to studies and images.
Memory
and Computers
Is
human memory similar to to the ram in a pc?
Discussion by Michael
Freed, Aerospace Human Factors, NASA Ames Research Center.
Various
articles, some comparing the brain to a computer.
"Welcome
to AmoebaWeb, the Mental Health Net award-winning site of psychology
resources on the Web! "
A Computational Theory of Working Memory
"Detailed modeling
of the memory ramifications of a human-machine system may be useful
in the prediction of performance in terms of both fluency of use and
in the prediction of errors." An academic paper.
Collective
Memory
"We
are only what we remember"
"In this feature, we honour
the people who experienced the World Wars, both abroad and at home.
We want to learn from them, and to answer the question "Why remember?"
AIDS
Memorial Quilt - The Names Project
The world remembers friends killed
by the AIDS epidemic.
"Private
Art: World War II Letters To and From Home"
Beautiful and extensive
site chronicles the war experiences of Pvt. Arthur Pranger and members
of his US Army battalion.
The
Library of Congress: American Memory
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. Many fine historical
photographs.
City
of the Silent, a page devoted to understanding and appreciating cemeteries.
"They were our friends, our families, our heroes. Now, in the crumbled
earth, they are our memories, remaining in this world if not visible
to it."
The
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Jerry
Garcia Memorial Web Page
Remembering:
how and why
The
Art of Memory
"Curiously, the use of memory systems did not
become immediately obsolete with the invention of printing, but instead
became elaborated into yet another form as a complex, Neoplatonic magic
which would have a far reaching, though somewhat obscured, influence."
How
to play piano music from memory
This is the hypertext version of
the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article for rec.music.makers.piano
on playing piano from memory.
Chess
grandmasters and memory.
Scroll down to "Memory: the touchstone
of talent?"
Mnemonic
Devices
"Mnemonic
devices are used for remembering information that is to be memorized,
but not necessarily understood." Here are a few of them.
Memory
Strategies
Mostly for students.
Forgetting:
how and why
Overcoming
writer's block
One writer's advice.
Alzheimer's
disease
Symptoms, effects, causes, support.
Amnesia
A brief lecture on the subject.
Memory
and Amnesia
Lecture.
Recurrent
amnesia during sex
"Sudden bouts of amnesia during periods of physical
and emotional stress, including sex, are not that uncommon . . . "
Repressed
Memory/Recalled Memory/False Memory
Recovered
Memories of Sexual Abuse: Scientific Research & Scholarly Resources
"I have published this page to direct people to quality scholarly
work on traumatic memory." By Jim Hopper, Ph.D.
Repressed
Memories
The perspective of Dr. Elizabeth F. Loftus. See also
Elizabeth
Loftus Challenges Our Total Recall
The
False Memory Syndrome Foundation
"To aid the victims, both
primary and secondary, of False Memory Syndrome."
Memory
Games on the Web
Five
Cognitive Pysychology Games
From the NASA Cognition Lab, five interactive
demonstrations that show how memory works.
Rainfrog's
Concentration
Remembering
What Wasn't
Pexeso
Memory
Lane
Memory
games to play with your children
Self-Quiz
on the Subject of Memory
Memory
and the Law
How
the Stages of Memory Can Affect Justice
An article by Professor
Roger L. Terry. "Certainly forgetting happens over time, but many
people are surprised at how rapid and pervasive the decay process is."
UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA versus DAVID KWONG
"In a surprising about-face,
however, Williams testified at the retrial that he now had experienced
a "glimmer of recognition" on seeing Kwong again, and he identified
him as the man who mailed the package to Catherine Palmer five years
earlier."
Eyewitness
Identification Procedures
"There is increasing evidence that
false eyewitness identification is the primary cause of the conviction
of innocent people."
Children's
Testimony
"Public and professional opinion about the credibility
of children as witnesses in sexual abuse cases has been sharply divided."
Fiction
Total
Recall
Movie review: When memory implants fail . . .
Dark
City
Movie review: "Pale, bald, bony aliens in cloaks and top
hats (the Strangers) rise periodically from the netherworld
to mess with the architecture (buildings spectacularly morph and mushroom)
and carry out their memory-transplant research."
Nostalgia
The
value of nostalgia
"In this essay, I will reevaluate nostalgia
as a form of cultural transmission that can shift in its political and
historical purposes"
Digital
Nostalgia
"My earliest childhood memories include computer games:
Breakout and Space Invaders. Then, later, ABM, Autoduel, Wasteland...the
list is endless. I created this site as a sort of high-tech memory
lane; a moment of digital nostalgia. Help yourself, and enjoy."
The
official 5.25" disk sleeve archive
Bibliographies
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