/words/engram/comments Comments for the word 'Engram' http://www.wordnik.com/ /words/engram/comments “The idea that experience leaves some trace in the brain goes back at least to Plato’s Theaetetus metaphor of a stamp on wax, and in 1904 the German scholar Richard Semon gave that ghostly trace a name: the engram.�?<br /><br />The New York Times, rain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory, by Benedict Carey, April 5, 2009 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:40:29 -0700 /words/engram/comments