The basis of memory / by W.R. Bousfield.

  • William Robert Bousfield
Date:
1928
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Credit: The basis of memory / by W.R. Bousfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forms ; first in motor mechanisms, second¬ ly in independent recollections ” and that “ consciousness retains the image of the situations which it has successively travelled, and lays them side by side in the order in which they took place In this view “ Consciousness ” appears to be the storehouse of memory images, but this seems to confuse “ consciousness ” (which only deals with images of which we are conscious) with “ the uncon¬ scious ” from which images have to be evoked. As to the survival of memory in motor mechanisms, he tells us that every perception is prolonged into nascent action.” Thus the auditory perception of words is linked with the articulatory mechanisms so that “ auditory impressions organise nascent movements. Such experiences “ accumulate within the body a series of mechanisms wound up and ready to react to external stimuli.” That which is retained is “ the intelligently co-ordinated movements which represent the accumulated efforts of the past. On this view, when we recall a poem
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