Description
The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions. In this book we explore what is so special about sense memories, how they work in the brain, how they can enrich our daily life, and even how they can help those suffering from problems involving memory. Cretien van Campen is a Dutch author, scientific researcher and lecturer in social science and fine arts. He is the founder of Synesthetics Netherlands and is affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for Social Research and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences. He is best known for his work on synesthesia in art, including historical reviews of how artists have used synesthetic perceptions to produce art, and studies of perceived quality of life, in particular of how older people with health problems perceive their living conditions in the context of health and social care services. More on Wikipedia: 1 A Memory of the Senses: Introduction; Part I Art; 2 The Proust Effect: The Dual Effect of Opening Lost Memories and Bringing Joy; 3 The Power of Fragrances: Smell Memories in Literary Fiction and Culinaria; 4 Listening to ‘My Generation’: Musical Memories by Pop Songs; 5 The Art of Memory: Visual Memories through Paintings, Television and Video Art; Part II Science; 6 The Hippocampus of Proust: The Making of Sense Memories in the Brain; 7 Nabokov as a Toddler in St. Petersburg: Stories of the Origins of Sense Memories in Childhood; 8 The Little Bricoleur: How Children Create Eidetic and Synaesthetic Memories; Part III Practice; 9 Do Sense Memories Make You Happier?: Personal Well-being, Aromatherapy, and Taste Lessons in School; 10 Uplifting Musical Memories: People with Depression, Dementia and Care for Older People; 11 Remembering 20,000 Digits of Pi: How Memory Artists Use Sense Memories; 12 How People Colour Their Past: Synaesthesia or How the Senses Colour Present and Past; 13 Enjoying Sense Memories: Concluding remarks; Appendix on the neuropsychology of the memory of the senses
