Tag: embodied-cognition

• The Rooms We Remember Before We Remember Them

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  Why do memoir writers always start with the layout of childhood homes, and what does neuroscience reveal about the strange architecture of spatial memory?

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  + On Memory

  + childhood, embodied-cognition, memoir, memory, place, spatial-memory

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• The Smell Before the Rain

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  What happens when you ask a memoir writer not what they remember, but what they smelled? The answer reveals something surprising about where our oldest and most vivid memories live.

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  + On Memory

  + childhood, embodied-cognition, memoir, memory, presence

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