“The idea that experience leaves some trace in the brain goes back at least to Plato’s Theaetetus metaphor of a stamp on wax, and in 1904 the German scholar Richard Semon gave that ghostly trace a name: the engram.”The New York Times, rain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory, by Benedict Carey, April 5, 2009
“The idea that experience leaves some trace in the brain goes back at least to Plato’s Theaetetus metaphor of a stamp on wax, and in 1904 the German scholar Richard Semon gave that ghostly trace a name: the engram.”
The New York Times, rain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory, by Benedict Carey, April 5, 2009