MetaFilter posts tagged with Memory

We can remember it for you wholesale!

mfoight — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:01:29 -0800

Memory is not what it used to be! Using a camera to record your daily activities so you will remember what life was like years later? Try SenseCam! Does keeping a Digital Diary screw with your mind and memory? A number of new books on the subject have just come out and discuss this further: Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything [Amazon Video] Mediated Memories in the Digital Age Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

Find the word you can't think of

Miko — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:26:33 -0800

Tip of My Tongue: Find that word you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember.

OMG Did you ever see that show....

msalt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:46:28 -0800

Mark Richardson muses about memory, personal history and YouTube. Specifically, he uncovered a storied 1970 Steel Mill gig (with Bruce Springsteen on guitar, audio only) that his wife's uncle MC'ed. And then the 15-year old Boss' garage band, The Castiles. And verified dim memories of seeing Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger and Steven Spielberg discuss radios in your teeth on TV, and John Cale on a TV game show. And an old Highland Appliances TV ad. That kind of thing.

Total Recall

netbros — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:16:08 -0800

AJ has come forward. Last year ericb told us about Hyperthymesia, a condition where the affected individual has a superior autobiographical memory. AJ is Jill Price, author of The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science—A Memoir.

Eternal Sunshine Within Reach.

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:26:36 -0800

Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory : spotless minds might be closer than we think.

Fatal Distraction

Ike_Arumba — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:57:38 -0800

Fatal Distraction. The lead story in this Sunday's Washington Post Magazine. "Forgetting a child in the back seat of a hot, parked car is a horrifying, inexcusable mistake. But is it a crime?". By Gene Weingarten. This is one of the finest pieces of human-interest journalism I've ever read. Fascinating, heartbreakingly sad, and disturbing in parts.

Memory lights the corners of my mind

Horace Rumpole — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:47:33 -0800

Computer data storage through the ages. From the punch card to the cassette drive to the Jaz, and much more.

Neuroscience of Nostalgia

homunculus — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:10:31 -0800

Neuroscience and Nostalgia. [Via]

Long-term effects of ecstacy

homunculus — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:13:05 -0800

Ecstasy's long-term effects revealed. "Enough time has finally elapsed to start asking if ecstasy damages health in the long term. According to the biggest review ever undertaken, it causes slight memory difficulties and mild depression, but these rarely translate into problems in the real world. While smaller studies show that some individuals have bigger problems, including weakened immunity and larger memory deficits, so far, for most people, ecstasy seems to be nowhere near as harmful over time as you may have been led to believe." [Via]

The Agrippa Files

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:32:36 -0800

The Agrippa Files presents a fairly expansive overview of the original and very rare 1992 art book Agrippa (a book of the dead), a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and award-winning journalist Kevin Begos, Jr. that presciently explored the ephemeral nature of and decay of memories and information. The comprehensive site includes selected pages from handmade and other editions of the book, along with a simulation of disappearing ink-printed pages, as well as the source code, bit-level copy and emulation of William Gibson's self-destructing work of poetry, which can be read once before it irreversibly encrypts itself. The Agrippa Files also collects scholarly essays on the artworks, exploring meaning and impact.

Just People, Talking

Miko — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:09:32 -0800

The recent passing of Studs Terkel sparked a renewed interest in his interview projects, like Working, Race, and Hard Times. But Studs was not just a broadcaster who liked people; he was a practitioner of oral history, a method of gathering information about the past through preserving individual recollections. It's a subfield of history, with its own ethics, techniques, professional literature, uses, and limitations. Learn how to collect and share oral histories yourself, from interviewing to recording and getting clearances to preserving and disseminating. Oral histories have been preserved as text transcripts for decades; now digital media isreinvigorating the form, bringing new ease to recording and wider opportunities for the public to see and hear the content. Explore oral history projects on the web with stories of veterans, suffragists, Tibetans, jazz cats, Nevada nuclear test site witnesses, Basque Americans, rodeo cowboys and cowgirls, musicians, Katrina survivors, ACT UP activists, Cambodians under the Khmer Rouge, Native Americans, women whose lives were affected by the Pill, survivors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire,women in World War II, Hawai'ians, workers in Paterson, NJ....

We'll remember you.

dmd — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:45:37 -0800

Henry G. Molaison, known to psychology and neurology students worldwide as "H.M.", dies. Previously.

Remember to Forget

Kronos_to_Earth — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:12:49 -0800

Dr. Joe Z. Tsien has previously created a strain of mice unable to form memories, one with much improved memory - "Doogie" mice - and can now erase single mouse memories. "Our work reveals a molecular mechanism of how that can be done quickly and without doing damage to brain cells." Remembering to forget....

Giordano Bruno

homunculus — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:45:12 -0800

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Heretic, Troll.

Unprotected Memory

CrunchyFrog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:27:47 -0800

So, you watched the movie Tron, and now you want to run your computerized guy off of the game grid and into the rest of the computer system? That's exactly what Daniel Wellman did on his Apple IIgs.

Memory remembered.

semmi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:27:11 -0800

Memory remembered. Does writing seek out words the better to stir and un-numb us to life—or does writing provide surrogate pleasures the better to numb us to experience? The author revisits the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth.

Keep your cool

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:24:51 -0800

levelHead is a spacial memory game by artist Julian Oliver, using a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors through which you guide your character. Take a look at a demonstration or build your own levelHead setup.

Doesn't everyone exaggerate the size of Lake Ontario?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:40:26 -0800

Humorist and candidate for the US Senate for Minnesota Al Franken draws a map of the United States from memory.

MetaCognition

homunculus — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:30:23 -0800

You know the feeling that something is on the tip of your tongue? It offers deep insights into the nature of the mind. [Via The Frontal Cortex]

3.14159265... and 99,992 digits to go!

splice — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:47:51 -0800

Exercising your brain makes you smarter, and there is no better gym for it than the MentatWiki. Researchers believe there is a link between working memory and fluid intelligence in that improving one seems to also improves the other. Lucky for you, this month is MentatWiki month at WikiVersity. The MentatWiki is a collaborative site focused on collecting ways to become a better thinker. From memory techniques to cubing numbers, Knight's tours and magic squares and more, all you need to get your brain in gear. Oh, and did you know that the site was founded by the author of Mind Performance Hacks, MeFi's own Ron Hale-Evans? Once you're feeling pretty good about your newfound skills, how about trying for a world record?

Modelling human memory, predicting forgetting

weston — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:03:31 -0800

Modelling Human Memory. Or, really, predicting the point of forgetting.

"A case of unusual autobiographical remembering."

ericb — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:54:17 -0800

51-year-old Brad Williams, a radio anchor in La Crosse, Wisconsin, can “recall the most trifling dates and details about his life….[n]ame a date from the last 40 years and, after a few moments, he can typically tell you what he did that day and what was in the news.” Brad has Hyperthymesia, a condition where the affected person has incredible recall of the most trivial events in his/her life. Neuroscientist James McGaugh and others at the University of California, Irvine, are studying Williams for clues as to his remarkable abilities [video]. Williams (aka 'Google Man' | video) vs. The Internet [video]. His brother, Eric, is working on a documentary about Brad – Unforgettable [trailer].

Chimpanzee Memory

homunculus — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:29:24 -0800

Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees. Are you smarter than a chimpanzee?

Algorithms for dumb security questions

nthdegx — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:09:58 -0800

Algorithms for dumb security questions

DIY Illusions

sushiwiththejury — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:18:48 -0800

Snacks about Perception. Via. Previously from the Exploratorium.