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...equal fascination to researchers is the persistence of memory, the ability not only to store but also to recall information and experiences. In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel released a flood of memories by tasting a tea-soaked petite Madeleine. Others have found that a memory-jogging whiff of perfume, a word, a few notes of music can conjure up similar-and often realistic-recollections of events they experienced many years earlier. A landmark discovery was made by the great Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, when he found that he could stimulate memories electrically. Probing a patient...
...they reject the notion of some science-fiction writers that memory molecules-and thereby memories-may one day be transferred from one brain to another. "The immune response is a learned reaction," says Rockefeller University's Edelman, again citing the parallel between memory and immunology. "There is no Marcel Proust for immunology. I doubt that there's one for the neurosciences...
...organ in a barn and taught himself to play, practicing up to 16 hours a day. At ten he was the organist of the First Presbyterian Church. At 20 he graduated with top honors from Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music, then studied with the celebrated French organist Marcel Dupré before returning to head Peabody's organ department...
...need for immediate income after the war, and spent ten years in remote villages working with stonemasons. Then in 1955 he had his first show in Tokyo - and sold nothing at all. But over the next several years, visiting Americans began to buy his works - Architects Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer, Collectors William Paley and Joseph Hirshhorn...
...Rippe engines are an odd but delightful amalgamation of handcrafting and machine mass production. Marcel Duchamp and James Fulton would probably both have liked them. But when the relationship between Jim Rippe and his quixotic great-uncle is made clear, the show becomes a little more than just a witty exercise in visual nostalgia...