Autobiographical Memory Quotes

“The poetry of music composes each generation of Americans’ autobiographical memories. Language and music represent two rotaries of the revolving and evolving wheels that we employ to internalize the axis of identification. Music plays a profound role in the definitive stages of most people’s lives. Reminiscent of the sounds and smells that flavored our youth, musical intonations organize our personal memories into temporal time sequence. Modulation of musical memories comprises an important quotient in people’s autographical memory system. If we listen to enough music, its pitch, tone, timbre, and cadence eventually seeps into our unconsciousness. The lilt of music becomes a portal through which we perceive, feel, and experience worldly inflections and how we synthesize swirling emotions.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The power of autobiographical memories lies in their specificity. Colourful and alive, they can be actively called up and dwelled upon. They are reconstructions - which us why they are sometimes false - yet so powerful that they are accompanied by an extraordinary sense of their correctness.”
― Frans de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?