Annette wrote: >What I recall, and it may be a false memory, is that Luria's >subject (S) was vastly bothered by his inability to turn off >his superior memory--that so many memories competed >constantly for retrieval that this was difficult for him to manage.
It's not a false memory, Annette! In his Preface to Luria's book on "S", Jerome Bruner writes: "His 'immediate' images haunt him for hours… Along with this trait there is also a non-selectivity about his memory, such that what remains behind is a kind of junk heap of impressions… He is flooded and disturbed by the images and impressions of childhood, and, when he was a child, his imagery of school would become so 'real' that he would lie abed rather than get out from under the quilt and get ready." http://www.scribd.com/doc/12983496/Alexander-Luria-The-Mind-of-a-Mnemonist Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [email protected] http://www.esterson.org --------------------------------------- From: Annette Taylor <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Minds of Mnemonists Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:33:28 -0800 What I recall, and it may be a false memory, is that Luria's subject (S) was vastly bothered by his inability to turn off his superior memory--that so many memories competed constantly for retrieval that this was difficult for him to manage. On the other hand, based on the 60 minutes piece, each of the people interviewed said that it did not bother them and tht they found a way to compartmentalize their vast autobiographical memories. Of note, in some of the retrievals clearly it was NOT merely autobiographical as they were able to recall many semantic memory type details of events and not just their own personal connection to the events. I thought this was an interesting discrepancy and I wonder how much of S's perceptions, which were only his, versus McGaugh's group's perceptions reflect the influence of the group members influencing one another. Clearly some people in the group (Henner in particular) were more outspoken during the taped television segments. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=7619 or send a blank email to leave-7619-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
