Quotes About Long Term Memory

#1. The Web has a very different effect. It places more pressure on our working memory, not only diverting resources from our higher reasoning faculties but obstructing the consolidation of long-term memories and the development of schemas.

Nicholas Carr

#2. Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

Joyce Brothers

#3. As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

George Steinbrenner

#4. If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

Eric Kandel

#5. A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

#6. I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

Eric Kandel

#7. The arrows of fortune ... .. derive their force from the velocity with which they are discharged; for, when they approach you by slow and perceptible degrees, they have but very little power to do you mischief.

Henry Fielding

#8. As frightening as it seems to live without long-term memory, a part of us all can understand how liberating it might be to always experience life as it is right now, in the simplicity of a world bounded by thirty seconds.

Suzanne Corkin

#9. "The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

Robert Jeffress

#10. Thus higher-order memorization is a multistage process, involving the transfer of perceptions, or perceptual syntheses, from short-term to long-term memory. It is just such a transfer that fails to occur in people with temporal lobe damage.

Oliver Sacks

#11. There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Timothy Leary

#12. The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Marcel Proust

#13. You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

Eric Kandel

#14. I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist ... it was a great education in human nature.

Jonathan Kellerman

#15. I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.'
'That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower.
'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again.

Terry Pratchett

#16. There are basically two types of memory which can either be long or short term.

Marc Collingwood