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Marcel Proust’S 'Le Temps Retrouvé': The Inner Book Of Impressions And Metaphor As The Language Of Thought, Korinne E. Hensley

UVM Patrick Leahy Honors College Senior Theses

Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu culminates in the realization of hero Marcel that he must become a writer. At the soirée chez les Geurmantes, he decides that as an author his ultimate task is the translation and composition of something he calls the inner book of impressions. This realization brings up several questions. Primarily, what are these impressions, and how do they come about? Moreover, as Marcel embarks on the job not merely of the scribe of these impressions but also the translator, we must ask what language these impressions were in when first impressed that they …

Protein Kinase Mzeta (Pkm-Ζ) Regulates Kv1.2 Dependent Cerebellar Eyeblink Classical Conditioning, Kutibh Chihabi

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

Learning and memory has been a topic that has captured the attention of the scientific and public communities since the dawn of scientific discovery. Without the faculty of memory, mammals cannot experience nor function in the world; among homosapiens specifically, language, relationships, and personal identity cannot be developed (Eysenck, 2012). After all, some philosophers such as John Locke argued we are nothing but a collection of past memories in which we have developed and improved upon (Nimbalkar, 2011).

Understanding the cellular mechanisms behind learning, and the subsequent formation of memory, has been a topic that has garnered scientific interest for …