'Tis, in fact, what I do for a living. Most of my research is in reconstructive memory. I am *not* one of the people who feel that science takes the romance out of the world, or is inherently unpoetic, but I do think that scientific *writing* sometimes has a tendency to do just that. It becomes important to step back and describe everything from a different perspective, just to remember what excited us about it in the first place.
I've been enjoying the description of writing style that you started and Papersky picked up as well. For me, the seed is sometimes visual, sometimes conversational, sometimes emotional. I'd say that in the same way that visual imagination uses the same 'stage' as vision, that creating a story from that initial kernel uses the same toolbox as reconstructing a memory.
I have this funny feeling that I'm not going to be able to avoid posting an actual blog here, even though I really don't need more ways to procrastinate. Right now, for example, I really ought to be either analyzing data or writing snarky comments on freshman papers. Yet, somehow, here I am.
If you do steal the time, I hope you'll post about your work. I'm fascinated by the way humans "story" fragments, how we make narratives of dream. I want to hear about that toolbox.
No, it's me. I have been assimilated. How many people do you know with a thunderstorm fetish? (*clicks through the 'thunderstorms' LJ interest and decides not to make you answer that*) Fine, how many cognitive psychologists with a thunderstorm fetish?
If we call you tonight, will you pick up? It's Valentine's Day, after all...
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Date: 2005-02-07 07:33 pm (UTC)Nine
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Date: 2005-02-07 08:01 pm (UTC)I got to your journal through Papersky's, and immediately saw the post about Kosslyn's work. What a wonderfully poetic way of describing it!
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Date: 2005-02-07 08:09 pm (UTC)I see that one of your interests is cognitive psych, so I'm glad that my flight of fancy hit the target.
Nine
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Date: 2005-02-07 08:56 pm (UTC)I've been enjoying the description of writing style that you started and Papersky picked up as well. For me, the seed is sometimes visual, sometimes conversational, sometimes emotional. I'd say that in the same way that visual imagination uses the same 'stage' as vision, that creating a story from that initial kernel uses the same toolbox as reconstructing a memory.
I have this funny feeling that I'm not going to be able to avoid posting an actual blog here, even though I really don't need more ways to procrastinate. Right now, for example, I really ought to be either analyzing data or writing snarky comments on freshman papers. Yet, somehow, here I am.
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Date: 2005-02-08 07:08 am (UTC)Nine
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Date: 2005-02-08 08:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-11 04:49 am (UTC)"My characters took over my life"
"No, no bad cat"
"Writing Addict"
Or maybe I'd name it after one of the many people in my head...nah, that would never work.
Welcome to LiveJournal! Please deposit all free time by the door in your way in...
Erm? *tentative hug*
Date: 2005-02-14 03:41 am (UTC)*Hugs* & *snuggles* etc. if you are. And much joyous dancing that you've finally given in to LJ: the addiction. Yay!
Sorry for the confusion if you're not... unless, of course, you're someone else who'd want random hugs from a friend of Tavi's.
*grin*
-- me.
Re: Erm? *tentative hug*
Date: 2005-02-14 06:49 pm (UTC)If we call you tonight, will you pick up? It's Valentine's Day, after all...