Memory Formation Quotes

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics' reviews and box office figures.

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

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.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

People are machines of forgetfulness

Memory is imagination pinned down.

What business does memory have with time?

Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.