Re: J.Z. Young on mnemons

From: Scott Chase (hemidactylus@my-Deja.com)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 18:06:39 GMT

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    On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 08:40:11 Scott Chase wrote: >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 * 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 > > The asterisk marks where I made an error in typing the quote from Young's article and added the term same. Sorry. The quote reads correctly now. Ugggh!

    Scott

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