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The proust effect : the senses as doorways to lost memories / Cretien van Campen ; translated by Julian Ross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campen, Van Cretien.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
- Proust, Marcel.
- Senses and sensation.
- Visual perception.
- Memory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work explores what is so special about sense memories, how they work in the brain, how they can enrich our daily life, and even how they can help those suffering from problems involving memory.
- Contents:
- Cover; THE PROUST EFFECT: THE SENSES AS DOORWAYS TO LOST MEMORIES; Copyright; Contents; 1 A memory of the senses: Introduction; PART I: Art; 2 The Proust effect: The dual effect of opening lost memories and bringing joy; 3 The power of fragrances: Smell memories in literary fiction and culinaria; 4 Listening to 'my generation': Musical memories by pop songs; 5 The art of memory: Visual memories through paintings, television, and video art; PART II: Science; 6 The hippocampus of Proust: The making of sense memories in the brain
- 7 Nabokov as a toddler in St Petersburg: Stories of the origins of sense memories in childhood8 The little bricoleur: How children create eidetic andsynaesthetic memories; PART III: Practice; 9 Do sense memories make you happier?: Personal well-being, aromatherapy, and taste lessons in school; 10 Uplifting musical memories: People with depression, dementia, and care for older people; 11 Remembering 20,000 digits of pi: How memory artists use sense memories; 12 How people colour their past: Synaesthesia or how the senses colour present and past; 13 Enjoying sense memories: Concluding remarks
- Appendix on the neuropsychology of the memory of the sensesGlossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Plates
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780191509308
- 0191509302
- 9780191509292
- 0191509299
- OCLC:
- 870904027
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