Topic Musings, Part II

This is going to need a lot more research to gain focus/clarity/complexity, but this is the idea I'm entertaining right now:

This is by no means an original enterprise (hopefully I'll find an angle that is) but how about I combine the science thing with the proust thing (and, zomg, the food thing too - madeleine study! but let's not get carried away just yet...)? Something along the lines of investigating the neuroscience/psychology behind proust's madeleine and involuntary memory. again, this has been done before. but we'll see what further exploration produces. one source says that only smell and taste are directly connected to the hippocampus (center for long-term memory) while the other senses (sight, touch, hearing) first go through the thalamus, which processes incoming stimuli and is associated with consciousness (or something) and are therefore less reliable when it comes to accurate recall. but then, my own proustian madeleines are strongest with music so what's that about? we shall see.

we shall see...

/UPDATE/

I just had a thought. Tomorrow morning I have to go to central park to watch my friend run 18 miles, after which I will be uncharacteristically north of midtown. So I could theoretically visit my ol' college campus for the first time since 2007 (gah!) and both take advantage of the library's resources and trigger my own P.M. (kinda. okay it's not really the same thing at all but it's still confronting a memory after a long time - just let me pretend it's relevant or I'll be too afraid to go). I duno, worst comes to worst I can find the million filled stamp cards I have but never turned in for free coffee.