ABSTRACT
Scientific studies and experiments, in neurosciences in particular, demonstrate that memory is neither a computer nor a construction company to build inside the brain a reality that has only a tenuous relation to the objective world outside. The afferent signals exhibit a mnemonic coding strategy that strives to get as much data as possible in the form of images, temporally and spatially determined, and to combine the two in the dynamic patterns that constitute our language. Memory’s main purpose is to integrate language and vision into a unified and faithful facsimile in which the world appears transfigured. Unity and faithfulness to the outside world are crucial, and that is why integration is the key. And we have seen that in study after study researchers are stressing integration.
