Cortical Memory Functions
This means that many neuroanatomists may balk at the functional interpretation I have given their sort of data, whereas many neuroscien tists in other fields may balk at references to neuroanatomy they cannot confirm from memory and begrudge the time to
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Cortical Memory Functions
1992 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
C.M. Fair Wakefield, RI 02879 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fair, Charles M. Cortical memory functions I by C.M. Fair p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Memory. 2. Neocortex. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Cerebral Cortex--physiology. 3. Neurophysiology. WL 307 F 163c] QP406.F33 1992 612.8'2--dc20 DNLMIDLC for Library of Congress
2. Memory--physiology.
92-2553 CIP
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When memory and anticipation are completely absent, there is complete conformity to the average influence of the immediate past. . .. Such a situation produces the activity of mere matter. When there is memory, however feeble and shortlived, the average influence of the immediate past . .. ceases to dominate completely. . .. Thus the universe is material in proportion to the restriction of memory and anticipation. According to this account . .. there is no need to postulate two essentially different types of active entities, namely the purely material . .. and the entities alive with various modes of experiencing.... This conclusion has the advantage of indicating the possibility of the emergence of life from the lifeless material of this planet-namely, by the gradual emergence of memory and anticipation. A. N. Whitehead (1949)
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