Spirals: Cognitive Science, Memory and Fiction

I'm starting a new series of posts called Spirals, devoted to some of the work I am doing in graduate school in the realms of cognitive science, usability and human factors in digital reading.

Today we kick off with an ode to the master, Marcel Proust, who literally unraveled memories and the act of remembering into a fine art. I recommend reading his works later on in life. When I tried in my twenties, its impact was lesser. After all, I had fewer memories to turn over in my mind. I imagine a...