Memory formation: its molecular and cell biology

Rose, Steven

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“…Furthermore, they are not to be thought of as models or inner worlds that are stored in brains, waiting to be brought out of storage as it were, and shared. Some neuroscientists are now arguing that changes in the brain in response to stimuli are transient and do not last for more than a few hours (Rose, 1995) and others, working from a complexity perspective, argue that it is inappropriate to describe the brain as storing anything (Barrie et al 1994;Freeman, 1994, 195;Freeman & Schneider, 1992;Freeman and Barrie, 1994;Skarda & Freeman 1990;Kelso, 1995). For example:…”

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Complexity and the Group Matrix

Stacey¹

2001

Group Analysis

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This paper explores the potential that the natural sciences of complexity may have to offer analogies and insights with regard to communicative processes in a group and the concept of the group matrix. The paper briefly reviews Foulkes' last formulation of the concept of the group matrix. It then draws on Mead's thought on mind, self and society, and on some analogies from the complexity sciences, to suggest a formulation of the emergence of mind in communicative interaction in a group.In his last paper on the group matrix, Foulkes (1973) says of a group-analytic group:What an enormous complexity of processes and actions and interactions play between even two or three of these people, or these people and myself, or between two in relation to another three, and so on. What enormous complexity, quite impossible to perceive and disentangle even theoretically all at the same time. How is it that they can nevertheless understand each other, that they can to some extent refer to a shared common sense of what is going on? (1973, p227) His answer to this question is 'the existence of a suprapersonal matrix ' (1973, p227). He sees this as an alterative to the view that what is happening in a group is due to the interaction of individual minds. He makes it clear (1973, p226) that he is talking about a psychic system, one of interacting mental processes, not individuals interacting to form a superimposed social system. Communication and the group matrix as suprapersonal psychic systemAccording to Foulkes, when people come together in a group they create a new phenomenon, a suprapersonal psychic system, which Foulkes describes in a number of different ways as: the context of the group, that is, the background in which the individual is figural (1973, p230); a total unified field of mental happenings of which the individual is a part (1971, p214); transpersonal processes that go right through individuals like X Rays, but which those individuals can modify, elaborate and contribute to in their own way (1973, p229); interacting mental processes that transgress the individual (1973, p229). By mental processes, he seems to mean communications such as 'acts, active messages, movements, expressions, silent transmissions of moods …' (1973, p213) both conscious and unconscious. In the latter category he includes resonance, transference, projection, and so on.Although earlier he had talked about the matrix as a group mind, in his last paper on the matrix he rejected that terminology and talked about 'the mind' as interacting transpersonal mental process, or 'mind' as a multiperson phenomenon (1971, p225). As I understand it, he is saying that an individual mind is the transpersonal processes that penetrate him or her through and through to the core so that individual mind is a multiperson phenomenon. This dynamic formulation begins to suggest a view of causality in which interaction is perpetually constructing the future when in their coming together people create the new phenomena of

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Section: Developing the Notion Of The The Group Matrix As Processmentioning

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Complexity and the Group Matrix

Stacey¹

2001

Group Analysis

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Complexity and the Group Matrix

Stacey¹

2001

Group Analysis

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This article explores the potential that the natural sciences of complexity may have for offering analogies and insights with regard to communicative processes in a group and the concept of the group matrix. Foulkes's last formulation of the concept of the group matrix is reviewed, before the author draws on the thoughts of G.H. Mead on mind, self and society, and on some analogies from the complexity sciences, to suggest a formulation of the emergence of mind in communicative interaction within a group.

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Genes to remember

Alberini

1999

Journal of Experimental Biology

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It has been known for several decades that the formation of long-term memory requires gene expression. In recent years, the use of genetic and molecular approaches has led to the identification and characterization of genes and molecules that play a fundamental role in the biological mechanisms underlying learning and memory. From these studies, it appears that molecules and molecular mechanisms essential for the process of memory have been conserved throughout evolution. The cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent activation pathway and a cAMP-dependent cascade of gene expression have been shown to be essential for memory formation in Aplysia californica, Drosophila melanogaster and rodents. Moreover, members of the transcription factor family cAMP response element binding proteins (CREBs) seem to represent key molecules for transforming incoming information into long-term memory. Here, we review the studies showing that conserved molecules and biological mechanisms are engaged in simple and complex forms of memory.

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Memory formation: its molecular and cell biology

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