Comments on: Short-term memory, or, encode of the Woosters http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/270?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=short-term-memory-or-encode-of-the-woosters Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lisa Neal http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/270/comment-page-1#comment-8101 Lisa Neal Thu, 01 May 2008 17:07:28 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/270#comment-8101 "Oddball analogies" or insightful connections? The latter is what I strive for. I had not seen Begley's book. Thanks for the pointer! “Oddball analogies” or insightful connections? The latter is what I strive for.

I had not seen Begley’s book. Thanks for the pointer!

]]> By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/270/comment-page-1#comment-8045 Dave Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:02:39 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/270#comment-8045 Thank you, Lisa. I keep looking for a job where I get paid to make oddball analogies; this is as close as I've gotten. Did your grad-school course touch on the way the mind affects the brain? That's part of what I found so compelling about <a href="http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/155" rel="nofollow">Sharon Begley's book</a>. Learning is, literally, a physical process. Thank you, Lisa. I keep looking for a job where I get paid to make oddball analogies; this is as close as I’ve gotten.

Did your grad-school course touch on the way the mind affects the brain? That’s part of what I found so compelling about Sharon Begley’s book. Learning is, literally, a physical process.

]]> By: Lisa Neal http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/270/comment-page-1#comment-8041 Lisa Neal Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:12:02 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/270#comment-8041 I love P. G. Wodehouse's books and found this post fascinating - as I did many of your posts - because of how you took the book and tied in into memory and learning. I took a seminar on human memory in graduate school, and this brought some of it back, showing that long term memory is retrievable given the right triggers! I love P. G. Wodehouse’s books and found this post fascinating – as I did many of your posts – because of how you took the book and tied in into memory and learning. I took a seminar on human memory in graduate school, and this brought some of it back, showing that long term memory is retrievable given the right triggers!

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