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The Proust effect : the senses as doorways to lost memories /
The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions. The smell or taste of a long forgotten sweet can stimulate a rich emotional response connected to our childhood, or a piece of music transport us back to our adolescence. Sense mem...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 childhood
- 8 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 senses
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates.