tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post109860495835541556..comments2024-03-08T04:09:09.836-06:00Comments on Mixing Memory: The Neuroscience of Repressed MemoriesChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08417970139690159046noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1098757892498806802004-10-25T21:31:00.000-05:002004-10-25T21:31:00.000-05:00Brandon, after I wrote this, I thought you might d...Brandon, after I wrote this, I thought you might drop by and notice that I wasn't really fair to Hume. To be honest, I was really just using his distinction as a launching point for a discussion of the fact that representations created by sensory input and representations created by the imagination can be, and often are hard to distinguish, particularly in memory, but even in neural imaging. <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fmixingmemory.blogspot.com" TITLE="scarymoonie at aol dot com">Chris</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1098666095191353442004-10-24T20:01:00.000-05:002004-10-24T20:01:00.000-05:00On Hume, I think actually there's good reason to t...On Hume, I think actually there's good reason to think that Hume would have considered impressions and ideas to be located in the same part of the brain; it would have been an essential part of what he somewhere calls 'the Cartesian philosophy of the brain', and which he seems to accept but not usually depend upon.<br /><br />It has been argued by some (Anne Jaap Jacobsen comes to mind) that Hume's views actually fit these sorts of cases fairly well, allowing for occasional poorly chosen examples and missteps. <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fbranemrys.blogspot.com" TITLE="bwatson at chass dot utoronto dot ca">Brandon</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1098661568573942572004-10-24T18:46:00.000-05:002004-10-24T18:46:00.000-05:00Exactly. Visualization, often involving the therap...Exactly. Visualization, often involving the therapist providing the general details in an effort to facilitate reminding. <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fmixingmemory.blogspot.com" TITLE="scarymoonie at aol dot com">Chris</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1098659139807293772004-10-24T18:05:00.000-05:002004-10-24T18:05:00.000-05:00It's worth noting that visualization is a key clin...It's worth noting that visualization is a key clinical strategy for eliciting (putatively) repressed memories. It's not just that it's difficult to tell the difference between real memories and the effects of dwelling on the possibility of repressed memory. Many therapists specifically encourage people to <I>visualize</I> what might have happened to them. Chris's post suggests that this is an especially risky clinical strategy because we're generally worse at differentiating between real and imagined images vs. real and imagined scenarios presented verbally.  <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fmajikthise.typepad.com" TITLE="frege at mac dot com">Lindsay Beyerstein</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com