Words, art, body and memory

Words, symbols and rich memory

A series of arguments is presented showing that words are not stored in memory in a way that resembles the abstract, phonological code used by orthography or by linguistic analysis. Words are stored in a very concrete, detailed code that includes nonlinguistic information including speaker’s voice properties and other auditory details. Thus, memory for language resembles an exemplar memory and ...

Running head: FALSE MEMORY IN IMAGES AND WORDS False Memory 1 False Memory in Images and Words

Working memory for pitch, timbre, and words

Aiming to further our understanding of fundamental mechanisms of auditory working memory (WM), the present study compared performance for three auditory materials (words, tones, timbres). In a forward recognition task (Experiment 1) participants indicated whether the order of the items in the second sequence was the same as in the first sequence. In a backward recognition task (Experiment 2) pa...

A different body: diagnostic imaging and body art.

An important dimension to the 20th century becoming a “biologic era” had been the development of diagnostic imaging. It began at the end of the 19th century, when Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) discovered x-rays; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for this in 1901 (1 ). George Ansell and Joseph Rotblat, working in Liverpool, visualized the thyroid in 1948, using radioiodine. The American engineer Hal ...

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Art and Medicine.

BACKGROUND Medical practice is a form of art, with each complex detail essential to the welfare of the individuals in the care of the physician. Art and medicine have shared a close relationship in a variety of ways for centuries, as demonstrated by anatomical drawings and textbooks from the 16th century. Leonardo da Vinci, driven by his fascination with the details of the human body and how it...