Stanley Turner

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are accompanied by what he calls "somatic markers" - neural encodings of the various physical conditions (sensory, hormonal) that existed in our bodies at the moment that the remembered event happened. So to recall an event is to retrieve the whole somatic context of that event: remembering a moment of fear, we shiver; remembering excitement, we blush.
Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
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