J.Z. Young on mnemons

From: Scott Chase (hemidactylus@my-Deja.com)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 16:40:11 GMT

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    This is an apt quote from J.Z. Young:

    (bq) "Incidentally many modern ideas on the subject go back to Richard Semon (1904) who wrote much of the mneme or mnemic faculty and invented the word engram. I do not think however that anyone has used mnemon or a similar word in quite the same sense of the module now to be proposed" (eq)

    ref:

    Young JZ. 1965. The organization of a memory system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (163): 285*-320

    I may have goofed the initial page number on my previous post.

    Scott

     

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