Daily-ist: Tuesday

If you are anything like us, the extent of your long term memory is directly dependent on well vs. premium liquor from yesterday's happy hour. Hell, we are still trying to remember where we parked our car this morning so that we can go to lunch.

Rice University Scientia, an Institute for the History of Science and Culture, presents the colloquium "Aspects of Memory" by guest lecturer Rachelle Smith Doody, Effie Marie Cain Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research and Professor, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Remembering is an activity that we all recognize within ourselves. Memory, on the other hand, is an artificial construct meant to represent the act of remembering or how well someone remembers. In psychological terms, memory is divided with respect to time (immediate, recent, and remote) or modality (visual, verbal). By use of these parsing arrangements, we can quantify aspects of memory; define what is normal, superior or flawed; and apply technologies, such as neuroimaging techniques, to the study of remembering.

Panelists include:
Terrence Doody, Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Rice University
Sydney M. Lamb, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department, Rice University

Scientia is an institute of Rice University faculty founded in 1981 by the mathematician and historian of science Salomon Bochner. Scientia provides an opportunity for scholarly discussion across disciplinary boundaries; its members and fellows come from a wide-range of academic disciplines.
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Tuesday, 15 January, 2008 | 4:30 p.m.
(reception after colloquium)
Rice University, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Lecture is free and open to the public.