title: Some Renaissance, Baroque, and contemporary cultural elaborations of the art of memory.
abstract: The target article addresses historical and present-day mnemotechnics as a practice. It also deserves scrutiny as culture writ small. For would-be Hermetic adepts of the Renaissance and Baroque, the ancient art of memory (AAOM) provided both an iconography and a projective-test vision of possibilities. In contemporary fiction, Memory Palaces become a metaphor for the workings of mind, of culture, and of information technology.
authors.affiliation: Massey University, School of Arts, Development and Health Education, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand. d.bimler@massey.ac.nz.
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bimler
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004325:Dreams / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*