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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    substance due to mechanical stimula¬ tion. Furthermore, it is said that the asso¬ ciation links between ideas which play such a notable role in memory, are due to brain paths between material memory traces, and that there is an associational network connecting cells or clusters of cells which have received such traces. Now we are constantly forming new associations of ideas, and if this association depends upon a material link in the nature of a new brain path, we must be constantly generating new physio¬ logical paths. There is, of course, no evidence that the association fibres of the cortex play such a role, or that the growth of new psychic associations corres¬ ponds to the opening of new paths. Perhaps a personal illustration may be permissible. The peculiar fact that the moon always turns the same side to the earth, once set me thinking. I called to mind the fact that the terrestrial tides must exert a constant drag upon the rotation of the earth, that the moon was once probably in a liquid state, that
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