For Callard & Papoulias, there is a particular demand for memory studies to place more emphasis on the physical and bodily conditions of an experience. These, the study shows, create lasting motor memory responses that become part of the body's reflexology. Accordingly, Callard & Papoulias find, there is an 'affect' which occurs with each unique or repeated experience and that this affect registers with the brain in a way that is natural and unconscious. As the article finds, "affect refers to an amorphous, diffuse, and bodily 'experience' of stimulation impinging upon and altering the body's physiology." (Callard & Papoulias, p. 247) In a certain regard, this study suggests that memory discourse is done a disservice by strictly focusing on the conscious and emotional cues related to memory at the expense of those memory functions requiring no intellectual labor. However, it should bear noting that this point of divergence...

To the contrary, the text by Rose contributes the lasting thought that we, in fact, know quite little about our memory relative to the complexity and ingenuity of its functioning. Rose points to the efforts of science to operationalize memory and suggests that this has produced insight without necessarily removing many of the mysteries still lurking in the subject.
Indeed, this is the unifying force of our readings, which see to illuminate the study of memory but which also recognize that many of its more compelling secrets are likely to remain hidden from the eyes of science.

Works Cited:

Callard, F. & Papoulias, C. (?). Affect and Embodiment. .

Caygill, H. (?). Physiological Memory Systems. .

Rose, S. (?). Memories Are Made of This. .

Sutton, J.; Harris, C.B. & Barnier, a.J. (?). Memory and Cognition. .