Memory

Most neuroscientists agree that memory is dynamic and reconstructive, which has a least a couple of implications for Bible translation. One is that it supports a view of (biblical, church, community) tradition as living and dynamic as opposed to simply static and conservative (though of course both memory and tradition have those aspects as well). Another implication is that if we want people to engage with scripture, we need to create contexts for processing the texts in multiple ways and on multiple occasions so as to move the experience/encounter from working memory to long-term memory, where it can become a part of further and larger dynamic and creative processes of personal and community memory.

1. 1How your "working memory" makes sense of the worldEnglish
2. 2The riddle of experience vs. memoryEnglish
3. 3Why eyewitnesses get it wrongEnglish
4. 4The fiction of memoryEnglish
5. 5Memory, learning, and peri-personal spaceEnglish
6. 6The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron"English