PSYCO403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Willem De Kooning, Procedural Memory
22 Mar 2020
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Used memory techniques to compensate (relied on other people) Came out with poem terminus before being diagnosed with ad. Know that something is going on but you can"t do anything about it. Progressed so far that you are no longer aware of any issues. His post-ad works were deemed happier, more peaceful . Even if it is just procedural memory and there isn"t a cognitive side to it, he is still able to express himself and communicate in some way. His newer paintings were more about raw emotion forced him to live in the present . Sustained artistic reasoning, which is how he continued to paint. His experiences seemed to have more meaning in the moment. By finding ways to live in the moment, the disease was less apparent. His targets were to simplify the way he did things throughout the disease. Trying to rule out/exclude other things before ad. Can"t be 100% sure of ad until autopsy.
