Considers how clothing is related to memory and personal identity. Examines how we communicate with clothing by considering both Roland Barthes’ semiotic account and a Gricean account of meaning. Considers how we might think of uniforms in light of these observations.

This chapter explores the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on memory and cognitive function, highlighting the potential of music as a therapeutic intervention. It discusses early warning signs of dementia and emphasizes the importance of lifestyle changes, including music engagement, to potentially slow down cognitive decline. The chapter reveals the remarkable resilience of musical memory in Alzheimer’s patients, even those with severe memory deficits. It delves into the concept of a unique ’musical memory’ that remains intact longer than other forms of memory. Studies show that Alzheimer’s patients can recall familiar melodies, detect irregularities in music, and even learn new songs, demonstrating the power of music to unlock memories and emotions. The chapter also discusses the ’emotion-memory tunnel’, a brain region crucial for musical memory, emotions, predictions, and synchronization. Music’s ability to activate this tunnel may explain its efficacy in stimulating memory recall in dementia patients. The chapter then highlights ongoing research investigating the potential of singing to mitigate brain degeneration in Alzheimer’s patients. Early findings suggest that musical engagement may slow down brain ageing and improve cognitive function, mood, and quality of life.

This chapter contrasts the voluntary, endogenous influences on attention to the involuntary, exogenous influences on attention. The neural effects of top-down versus bottom-up attention are presented, including how these effects are observed at multiple levels of processing in the brain. Evidence from fMRI and ERP studies show the separate and interacting effects of endogenous and exogenous attention in multiple visual processing regions and on the C1, P1, N1, and P3 components. Inhibition of return (IOR), an attention process unique to reflexive attention is described, along with corresponding ERP evidence. The debate concerning reflexive orienting and contingent capture is discussed, and the effects of special classes of stimuli (e.g., new objects; faces; emotion-inducing stimuli) on the involuntary allocation of attention are introduced. ERP indices of attentional orienting in visual search (e.g., the N2pc component) versus the suppression of distractors (e.g., the PD components) are discussed. This chapter also describes how memory affects attentional allocation, both in the initial capture and the subsequent holding of attention. Finally, theories are introduced that propose that selection history and reward learning play significant roles in the involuntary biasing and allocation of attention.

This chapter, which opens by employing Forest as an example of an app which aims to help people avoid procrastinating on screens, is concerned with screen time. In particular, it discusses postdigital temporal rhythms, or the ways in which people experience time on, at, with, and against screens. Drawing on Henri Bergson’s theory of time, Chapter 6 situates durational time within a new, postdigital context, where free-flowing subjective time on screens is mediated by what Bergson terms qualitative multiplicity. These ideas are discussed against a backdrop of reflections from crescent voices, including data processed by ATLAS.ti, which tabulates what interviewees had to say about time and memory on screens. The chapter observes a trend in interviewee responses that experiences of time on screens were very often described as being strongly intuitive. Crescent voices frequently lost track of time in habitual movements on screens, a slip which interviewees found could give comfort by offering a break from clock time. Expanding on this, the chapter elaborates how screens disrupt notions of time as a predictable, measurable entity.

The Epilogue draws together the book’s various concerns by examining James’s wartime fundraising efforts on behalf of the American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps, a project that demonstrates his interest in the relational and testimonial uses for transport.

Continuing the exploration of categories related to the attitudinal ones, yet going beyond them, this chapter focuses primarily on the concept of subjectivity, and secondarily on the related concept of mirativity. It revisits the distinction between subjective and objective modality as it is traditionally made in the literature. It offers an alternative analysis in terms of the concept of subjectivity vs. intersubjectivity. It also considers the relationship between (inter)subjectivity, as relevant for the attitudinal categories, and two other major notions of subjectivity, notably Traugott’s and Langacker’s. It argues that these different concepts concern different phenomena, although all of them are relevant for the domain of the attitudinal categories. The chapter moreover explores the status of (inter)subjectivity relative to the qualificational hierarchy. It thereby draws in mirativity, as a semantically similar dimension. And it reconsiders the status of experienced, hearsay and memory, as dimensions that share some relevant characteristics with (inter)subjectivity and mirativity.

This and the next chapter deal with a number of notions and forms of which the linguistic or semantic status is or can be disputed, but which in the present analysis are considered non-attitudinal. The present chapter deals with the notions of directivity, volition and intention, which are argued to be action related, hence to pertain to the cognitive domain of communication planning. It also reanalyzes the concept of evidentiality, arguing for a very different cognitive status of inferentiality, as an attitudinal category, on the one hand, and on the other hand of the traditional categories of hearsay and experience, as well as of a less traditional category called ‘memory.’

In recent years, the history of emotions has acquired an epistemological maturity that has established its legitimacy in the historiographic field. But what is an emotion? Although "emotion" is not a medieval word, the great historian of emotions, Barbara H. Rosenwein, refuses the semantic fixity of the vocables, by slipping voluntarily on the terms and by the playing of the synonymies. Emotional expressionism is the mark of the late Middle Ages in religious life but also in the political, ecclesial, and social worlds. The social sharing of emotions fulfills the function of strengthening the collective identity. In a sense, to rewrite the history of the Great Schism from the perspective of the history of emotions is to consider the great fresco of ecclesiastical passions in their experiences, their discursivity, and their subsequent reception. Passions were often silenced a posteriori by the great official narrative of the Church. That is the gap between archives and narratives.

This chapter reviews the principle domains assessed by clinical neuropsychologists when conducting a cognitive assessment and the utility of assessment in diagnosis and clinical management. It provides an overview of methods for estimating prior functioning, the non-specific nature of patients’ subjective neurological complaints, validity and base rate issues, and some of the difficulties and complicating issues that arise when interpreting neuropsychological data. Those interested in succinct summaries of clinical presentations and “bedside” measures may find Hodges [1] and Larner [2] useful further reading, and those interested in detailed reviews of cognitive tests can do no better than to consult Lezak, Howieson, Bigler and Tranel’s [3] authoritative text.