Retrieval and Reconsolidation: Toward a Neurobiology of Remembering
- Neuromodulation and Cognitive Processes, Institut des Neurosciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UnitéMixte de Recherche (UMR) 7624, 75005 Paris, France
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A permanently existing “idea” which makes its appearance before the footlights of consciousness at periodical intervals is as mythological an entity as the Jack of Spades.
William James (1890)
Memory lends itself to study through its retrieval whether it is evaluated by the behavior of a mouse in a swimming pool, a verbal report from a human subject, or inferred from an electrophysiological event. As William James so aptly pointed out, “the only proof of there being retention is that recall actually takes place.” (1892). Such a view of memory as remembering is well elaborated in the theoretical reflections of Bergson (1896), in the seminal studies of Bartlett (1932) and later in those of Tulving (Tulving and Thomson 1973) and Craik (1983), who argue, after Bergson, that remembering is an activity similar to perceiving, in the sense that it involves the apprehension and comprehension of contemporary stimuli in …
