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Hace 4 días · Why forgetting is beneficial. Imperfect memory and false recollections are essential elements of a flexible mind, argues neuroscientist Charan Ranganath in a new book. David Robson asks him why...
Hace 5 días · May 16, 2024 Season 4 Episode 4. Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Nicholas Weiler, Anthony Wagner. At some point in our lives, we all struggle with memory — learning a new name, remembering that book you were reading just yesterday or that word on the tip of your tongue. So what can neuroscience teach us about why we remember, why we forget ...
Hace 1 día · INTRODUCTION. For French historian Pierre Nora, memorials are designed to ‘to stop time, to block the work of forgetting, to establish a state of things, to immortalize death, to materialize the immaterial’ (Citation 1989, 19).In the Global North, these ‘sites of memory’ have taken on standardised forms: the headstone; the figurative monument; the memorial park; the photographic memento.
Hace 4 días · History, Memory and Tainted Pasts: The politics of memory and forgetting; Nordic collaboration and resistance; colonialism and decolonization: rights, legacies, and complicity; Nordic discourses on development, self-determination and historical violence; intra-Nordic colonial histories; the archaeology of narratives of colonized and the colonizers; from contestations to reconciliations ...
Hace 5 días · This article examines the relationship between social networks, protest and memory. It begins by focusing on activists’ attempts to supplement official narratives before going on to explore the way the digital offers mechanisms that both ameliorate and heighten the fear of forgetting.
Hace 5 días · Following this, John Keiger’s essay introduces us to the theme of forgetting that runs throughout these chapters. Any discussion of how societies remember inevitably turns to what has been forgotten, and the Entente Cordiale provides a prime example.
Hace 2 días · Explaining the science behind memory and memory loss—including why forgetting is a crucial property of memory, as well as strategies that help people remember better—is the subject of a new book co-authored by Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger.
