New Advances in Brain & Critical Care(NABCC)

Borra College of Health Sciences, Dominican University, USA

Publications

• Review Article   
  Memory: From Ancient Art to Synaptic Science: A Discursive Exploration of the Cultural History and Contemporary Neurobiology of Human Memory
  Author(s): Julian Ungar-Sargon*
  
  Memory constitutes one of humanity's most enduring intellectual preoccupations, weaving through philosophy, rhetoric, theology, psychology, and neuroscience across three millennia of systematic inquiry. This discursive article traces the cultural history of memory from its origins in ancient mnemonic traditions through medieval scholasticism, the scientific turn of experimental psychology, and into the contemporary era of molecular and systems neuroscience. We examine how cultural metaphors the wax tablet, the aviary, the storehouse, the palimpsest, and now the computer has shaped both lay and scientific conceptions of how experience becomes retained knowledge. The article integrates historical analysis with current research on synaptic plasticity, memory consolidation, reconsolidation dynamics, and the neurobiology of forgetting, arguing that understanding memory's cultural g.. Read More»
  

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