Author: Semon, Richard.
Title: Die Mneme als erhaltendes Prinzip im Wechsel des organisches geschehens. [First edition]
Description: Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1904. VII,353 pp. Original blue cloth. - Covers very sl. rubbed; owner's entry in ink on title-page.* Rare first edition of Richard Semon's (1859-1918) important work on organical memory or Mneme. Semon argued not only that information is encoded into memory and that there are 'memory traces' (engrams) or after-effects of stimulation that conserve the changes in the nervous system, he also contended that these changes in the brain (that is, engrams) are inherited. Semon's mneme-theory fell into disrepute largely because in a Lamarckian fashion it proposed that memory units are passed from one generation to another.

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