Adventures In Memory
Hilde Østby and Ylva Østby
612.8233 O851X 2018 Multco Central
Mixmaster book, stories interleaved, read in one sitting or write lots of notes
p3 1564 Bologna J.C. Arantius hippocampus
p4 Henry Molaison 1953 hippocampus removal by William Beecher Scoville
- p9 conscious memory gone, procedural memory (drawing) remains
p15 Suzanne Corkin Jacopo Annese, Brain Observatory at UC San Diego 2401 slices
p30 Terje Lømo long-term potentiation 1966 rabbit, 1968-73 Tim Bliss
- p191 memory traces
p33 grid cells
- ch 2 long discursive story about diving experiment, environment memories formed affects where memories remembered
p70 Unquiet semi-autobiographical novel by Linn Ullmann daughter of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman
p80 episodic memory, deficient autobiographical memory
p93 Virginia Wolff novel Mrs Dalloway deferred traumatic stress
p99 Emily A. Holmes PLOS 2009 Playing Tetris after traumatic event considerably reduces traumatic shock
p118 Edgar Allan Poe 1884 Balloon-Hoax in New York The Sun newspaper
p119 A picture is worth a thousand lies: Using false photographs to create false childhood memories Maryanne Garry photoshopped image creates fake memories of childhood balloon ride
p122-126, Østbys can't reproduce, other researchers skeptical
p130 Innocence Project 300 cases of DNA acquittal, 75% witness pointed at wrong person
p131 Svein Magnussen, people in therapy who have been helped to "remember" abuse
- p131 175 men and women who have demonstrably been exposed to abuse as children always knew what had happened, sudden discoveries as an adult are close to impossible
p133 trauma researcher Ines Blix
p133 Shaw and Porter created crime memories in 70% of sleep-deprived subjects
- p135 Confession-focused interrogation, NYC rape April 1989, 5 forced to confess, all exonerated by DNA
- p136 Birgitte Teng murder, cousin interrogated, punished/rewarded until he "confessed"
- p139 contradicting DNA evidence, convicted in court, acquitted on appeal. Family sues cousin, wins restitution
- p140 cousin wins wrongful prosecution suit in European Court of Human Rights
- p140 expert Gisli Gudjonsson lambastes Norwegian police interrogation methods
- p141 interrogator Asbjørn Rachlew learns British "investigative interview" methods
- p143 Bosnian-Norwegian convicted of rape in spite of contradictory DNA evidence,
- real rapist with that DNA later killed his wife. Rachlew: "child orphaned, we could have prevented that"
p144 Ordeal, thriller novel by Jorn Lier Horst, ex-police investigator
p147 Norwegian police now work with the fundamental laws of memory. Establish good relationships, memory works poorly under pressure.
- p151 London black cab drivers "The Knowledge", 25,000 streets, 320 specific routes, countless landmarks
- p153 years of training. Taxi driver Judy spent 34 months studying, "better decisions than GPS"
- p155 researcher Eleanor Maguire measured significant posterior hippocampus growth
p160 grid cells
p161 chess masters Simen Agdestein Magnus Carlsen
- p163 expert chess players remember board patterns, up to 24 pieces, nonsense patterns just a few
- p166 Shakespearean players, long memorized monologues
p175 method of loci, Globe theater decorations one big memory machine
p166 Actor Marie Blokhus with synesthesia
- p168 opera singer Johannes Weisser memorizing three hour operas
- p170 Ingrid Sande Larsen memory champion, remembers room where she learns something
- p172 memorizing cards as objects, decks as stories
p177 Oddbjørn By about 100 different memory palaces
- p184 Chessmaster John Ludvig Hammer remembers four boards, and spots mistake in test setup
p187 Hermann Ebbinghaus studies forgetting
- p189 how long to relearn?
- p193 Interview, plywood walk between, interviewer replaced by comedian Trond Kirkvaag wearing fangs or crown, subjects didn't seem to notice
p194 subjects count basketball passes, do not notice gorilla
p198 Alan Baddeley episodic buffer
p202 Childhood amnesia boundary age 3 to 5
p205 Patricia Bauer at Emory, earliest memories more perishable, completely disappear by age 9 for most children
p205 Kristine Walhovd Everything you want your children to remember, you must talk to them about
p207 hippocampus builds network during growth spurt of cortex ( or place or grid cells, or perineuronal net), but data only from rodents )
- p209 Ylva mimics Ebbinghaus to memorize 100 days
- p217 Worry fills working memory instead of other things, so you worry that you forget ... allow more time to remember
- p218 Worried people struggle to remember happy faces
- p226 Alzheimer's affects hippocampus furst
- p277 amyloid? tau? "we don't have the answers" starts several decades before disease is detectable
p228 anterograde amnesia impairs new memories, hippocampus
p228 developmental amnesia Autism(?), fewer memories lifelong, but some
p229 retrograde amnesia all earlier memories vanish, Øyvind Aamot
p236 Svalbard Global Seed Vault website 2008 -18C 0F
- p237 backup for the depositing nations, recently been affected by melting permafrost
p238 Mental Time Travel Thomas Suddendorf
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p242 Homo erectus, locations with many stone tools, workshops?
p245 Schacter Addis @Harvard fMRI of constructive memory Nature 2007
- p252 depression and difficulties envisioning the future
- p254 2 groups watch film, one does math, other interviewed about the film, the interviewed better creative problem solvers
p257 Suddendorf believes(?) Lascaux cave painting was a story, helping deal with (imagine? prepare for?) the future
p260 Anne Lise Kjaer
- p261-263 IPCC Chris Fields, Katherine Mach
p267 Bibliotheca Alexandrina Side view looks too close to sea level
- Architect
Snøhetta Architect Kjetil Traedal Thorsen (email on website)