Marsha Lieberman

We usually think of being lost as an error that needs correction. Could this instead be an opportunity to build an internal layout of the environment we find ourselves in, observing and then choosing the elements we commit to memory? Would we not only actively find our way, but understand (and then remember) more vividly… Read more: Being Adrift

The work of philosopher and neuroscientist Felipe De Brigard is ”reshaping our understanding of the nature and function of memory and its relationship to imagination.”* He contends that some of the same parts of the brain are used to reconstruct the past as to imagine the future, and that which might have been. What happens… Read more: Memory and Imagination

Both neuronal and digital pathways process information, yet in fundamentally different ways. Pathways in our brains arise from experience and are not fixed or predetermined. They are messy, overlapping, and incapable of the precise repetition possible in the digital. The system is decentralized, yet endlessly interconnected. If digital pathways resemble the regularity and predictability of… Read more: Pathways

How do people naturally orient themselves?  What is the role of wandering in knowing where we are? How does making mistakes (taking “wrong” turns) strengthen our sense of where we are? There is an internal tracking system built into our neurophysiology. Is coordination between that system and the ability to note and recall landmarks key… Read more: Orientation

This is an imaginary landscape where shapes represent significant landmarks. Which shapes connect? Which ones overlap? Which are contained in part by another shape? Which are contained completely by another? Which shapes have no relationship whatsoever with any other? Which have no visible relationship at all, but are the same in every way– size, color,… Read more: Spatial Relationships