Theory that if we are correctly said to remember some fact or event (as against relearning it, guessing it, and so on) there must be some physiologically identifiable trace in the brain which carried the information in question right through from the time when we first learnt it.
The trace need not be a physical object; it could be an electrical circuit or such like.
Source:
H A Bursen, Dismantling the Memory Machine (1978); critical
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 The Development and Present Status of the Trace Theory of Memory
- 2.2 Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory (Volume 10) (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)
- 2.3 Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- 2.4 A Theory of Love: A Novel
- 2.5 The Memory Trace (PLE: Memory): Its Formation and its Fate (Psychology Library Editions: Memory)
- 2.6 French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony
- 2.7 Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu
- 2.8 Trauma and Media (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
- 2.9 Finding Sarah
- 2.10 The Development of Thinking and Reasoning
- causal theory of memory
- identity theory of mind
- connectionism
- no-ownership theory of the mind
- causal theory of names
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