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  1. Added Jun 20, 2008 by lcinstitute
    This blog attempts to create a collective memory of an ephemeral event: the 2005 installation by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude entitled The Gates. The site, which has compiled thousands of photos of the installation, traces the similarities and the differences between individual experiences of this work of art.
  2. Added Jun 20, 2008 by lcinstitute
    At this Web site of Boston-based NPR affiliate WBUR, you can listen to an episode of the nationally syndicated radio show The Connection entitled “Forgetting Yourself: Memory and Identity.” Guest Jill Robinson, a writer who was struck with sudden amnesia, explores the answers to questions such as, Can you love without memory? Or hate? Does personality remember who to be on its own?
  3. Added Jun 20, 2008 by lcinstitute
    This article by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg explores physical, or implicit, memory as opposed to mental, or explicit memory. The author discusses the ways in which implicit memory is accessed and reinforced through, for example, exercise and dance. (Note: this link opens a PDF.)
  4. Added Jun 20, 2008 by lcinstitute
    This Wikipedia page describes the Method of Loci, or the art of memory. This is the traditional technique of memorization that has been used since its conception in classical antiquity.
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