The Proust effect : the senses as doorways to lost memories / Cretien Van Campen ; translated by Julian Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campen, Crétien van, author.

Contributor:

Ross, Julian (Translator), translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Involuntary memory.

Senses and sensation.

Physical Description:

vi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

1 A memory of the senses 1

Introduction

I Art

2 The Proust effect: The dual effect of opening lost memories and bringing joy 9

3 The power of fragrances: Smell memories in literary fiction and culinaria 19

4 Listening to 'my generation': Musical memories by pop songs 28

5 The art of memory: Visual memories through paintings, television, and video art 36

II Science

6 The hippocampus of Proust: The making of sense memories in the brain 47

7 Nabokov as a toddler in St Petersburg: Stories of the origins of sense memories in childhood 60

8 The little bricoleur: How children create eidetic and synaesthetic memories 69

III Practice

9 Do sense memories make you happier?: Personal well-being, aromatherapy, and taste lessons in school 81

10 Uplifting musical memories: People with depression, dementia, and care for older people 90

11 Remembering 20,000 digits of pi: How memory artists use sense memories 102

12 How people colour their past: Synaesthesia or how the senses colour present and past 115

13 Enjoying sense memories: Concluding remarks 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-171) and index.

ISBN:

9780199685875

0199685878

OCLC:

861207468