Poetry, Memory, The Matters of Gray.
By Eric Hill • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, In BriefThis is Your Brain on Poetry
As you read this, Dr. Jacopo Annese is slicing up a brain. Not just any brain, but the brain of Henry Molaison, a man famous for his inability to form new memories after he underwent brain surgery in the early 1950s. Dr. Annese, a San Diego scientist, is digging into Molaison’s gray matter with hopes of figuring out exactly how human memory works. The NYT reports that recordings of Molaison’s brain slices will “produce a searchable Google Earth-like map of the brain with which scientists expect to clarify the mystery of how and where memories are created–and how they are retrieved.”
So Dr. Annese and his compatriots are, in effect, plunging into the greatest poetic mystery of all time.
read more at The Huffington Post.
Eric Hill is the editor of branta.
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