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e033b71 Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. recollection memory William Faulkner
6026335 There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. truth falsehood recollection memory Harold Pinter
388a0e4 It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. recollection Lisa Unger
40e925c How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! recollection Vladimir Nabokov
95e9281 That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering. [p214] recollection memory John Green
b0d49c9 The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. metaphor humor recollection memory Terry Pratchett
0e6da23 In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. recollection nostalgia Gabriel García Márquez
e405bed Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released by the head warden's child from a cell in the brain while the mind is at work on some totally different matter? Something of the sort also occurs just before falling asleep when what you think you are thinking is not at all what you think. Or two parallel passenger trains of thought, one overtaking the other. thoughts recollection Vladimir Nabokov
5ba39ab "... [O]ne of the most influential approaches to thinking about memory in recent years, known as connectionism, has abandoned the idea that a memory is an activated picture of a past event. Connectionist or neural network models are based on the principle that the brain stores engrams by increasing the strength of connections between different neurons that participate in encoding an experience. When we encode an experience, connections between active neurons become stronger, and this specific pattern of brain activity constitutes the engram. Later, as we try to remember the experience, a retrieval cue will induce another pattern of activity in the brain. If this pattern is similar enough to a previously encoded pattern, remembering will occur. The "memory" in a neural network model is not simply an activated engram, however. It is a unique pattern that emerges from the pooled contributions of the cue and the engram. A neural network combines information in the present environment with patterns that have been stored in the past, and the resulting mixture of the two is what the network remembers... When we remember, we complete a pattern with the best match available in memory; we do not shine a spotlight on a stored picture." engrams neuroscience recollection memory psychology Daniel L. Schacter