David Perlmutter Quotes

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Memory - the very skin of life.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

Memory feeds imagination.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.