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Human Memory

Human Memory

Human Memory 4th edition provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on human memory. Written in an engaging style the book is divided into three sections providing an accessible introduction to the application and assessment of memory theory. Beginning with the history of memory the first section explores basic methodology and neuroscience. The second section examines the key topics of memory such as the sensory registers mechanisms of forgetting and short-term nondeclarative episodic and semantic memory. The third section focuses on specialist topics such as amnesia memory for space and time autobiographical memory memory and reality memory and the law metamemory and formal models of memory. Instructors could pick and chose which of these chapters best fit the goals of their course. New to this edition: More prominent discussion of neuroscience findings. Coverage of a wider range of neuroscientific techniques. Greater emphasis on memory changes over time. New explanation of how to calculate a wider range of signal detection measures. Additional content on a wide range of topics including the mirror effect sleep-related memory processes vicarious autobiographical memories inter-generational memory transmission the impact of lying on memory eyewitness collaboration and aging and spatial memory. Expanded coverage of areas including theories of hypermnesia chunking serial order memory prospective memory threshold models and eyewitness line-up identification. Updated companion resources including PowerPoint slides and exam questions. The book highlights the application of memory theory and findings to everyday experience presents in-depth explorations of studies and provides opportunities for students to explore the assessment of memory in more laboratory-based settings. Packed full of student-friendly pedagogy including study questions Stop and Review and Try it Out sections Study in Depth text boxes and more Human Memory 4th edition is an essential companion for all students of human memory.

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Memory

Memory

The third edition of Memory provides students with the most comprehensive introduction to the study of human memory and its applications in the field. Written by three leading experts this bestselling textbook delivers an authoritative and accessible overview of key topic areas. Each chapter combines breadth of content coverage with a wealth of relevant practical examples whilst the engaging writing style invites the reader to share the authors’ fascination with the exploration of memory through their individual areas of expertise. Across the text the scientific theory is connected to a range of real-world questions and everyday human experiences. As a result this edition of Memory is an essential resource for those interested in this important field and embarking on their studies in the subject. Key features of this edition: it is fully revised and updated to address the latest research theories and findings; chapters on learning organization and autobiographical memory form a more integrated section on long-term memory and provide relevant links to neuroscience research; it has new material addressing current research into visual short-term and working memory and links to research on visual attention; it includes content on the state-of-play on working memory training; the chapter on “memory across the lifespan” strengthens the applied emphasis including the effects of malnutrition in developing nations on cognition and memory. The third edition is supported by a Companion Website providing a range of core resources for students and lecturers.

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Prospective Memory

Prospective Memory

Featuring contributions from world-leading experts this book presents a timely overview of current theoretical methodological and applied issues in the field of prospective memory. The authors explore how prospective memories are formed how they are maintained over time and how they are retrieved. This volume integrates our understanding of prospective memory and how it functions with related cognitive processes and themes such as context memory metamemory working memory and cognitive control. Considering recent methodological advances in the field such as the use of cognitive modeling the book also covers individual differences in prospective memory abilities their development across the life span and their manifestations in naturalistic settings. The book also illustrates how the understanding of prospective memory can be integrated with other related research areas. Prospective Memory is an invaluable resource for students and researchers of human memory.

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Working Memory in Development

Working Memory in Development

Working memory is the system responsible for the temporary maintenance and processing of information involved in most cognitive activities and its study is essential to the understanding of cognitive development. Working Memory in Development provides an integrative and thorough account of how working memory develops and how this development underpins childhood cognitive development. Tracing back theories of cognitive development from Piaget's most influential theory to neo-Piagetian approaches and theories pertaining to the information-processing tradition Camos and Barrouillet show in Part I how the conception of a working memory became critical to understanding cognitive development. Part II provides an overview of the main approaches to working memory and reviews how working memory itself develops across infancy and childhood. In the final Part III the authors explain their own theory the Time-Based Resource-Sharing (TBRS) model and discuss how this accounts for the development of working memory as well providing an adequate frame to understanding the role of working memory in cognitive development. Working Memory in Development effectively addresses central and debated questions related to working memory and is essential reading for students and researchers in developmental cognitive and educational psychology.

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory

Memory occupies a fundamental place in philosophy playing a central role not only in the history of philosophy but also in philosophy of mind epistemology and ethics. Yet the philosophy of memory has only recently emerged as an area of study and research in its own right. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory is an outstanding reference source on the key topics problems and debates in this exciting area and is the first philosophical collection of its kind. The forty-eight chapters are written by an international team of contributors and divided into nine parts: The nature of memory The metaphysics of memory Memory mind and meaning Memory and the self Memory and time The social dimension of memory The epistemology of memory Memory and morality History of philosophy of memory. Within these sections central topics and problems are examined including: truth consciousness imagination emotion self-knowledge narrative personal identity time collective and social memory internalism and externalism and the ethics of memory. The final part examines figures in the history of philosophy including Aristotle Augustine Freud Bergson Wittgenstein and Heidegger as well as perspectives on memory in Indian and Chinese philosophy. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy particularly philosophy of mind and psychology the Handbook will also be of interest to those in related fields such as psychology and anthropology.

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Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory

Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory

The Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory presents a collection of chapters on methodology used by researchers in investigating human memory. Understanding the basic cognitive function of human memory is critical in a wide variety of fields such as clinical psychology developmental psychology education neuroscience and gerontology and studying memory has become particularly urgent in recent years due to the prominence of a number of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. However choosing the most appropriate method of research is a daunting task for most scholars. This book explores the methods that are currently available in various areas of human memory research and serves as a reference manual to help guide readers’ own research. Each chapter is written by prominent researchers and features cutting-edge research on human memory and cognition with topics ranging from basic memory processes to cognitive neuroscience to further applications. The focus here is not on the what but the how—how research is best conducted on human memory.

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Remembering Social Movements Activism and Memory

Remembering Social Movements Activism and Memory

Remembering Social Movements offers a comparative historical examination of the relations between social movements and collective memory. A detailed historiographical and theoretical review of the field introduces the reader to five key concepts to help guide analysis: repertoires of contention historical events generations collective identities and emotions. The book examines how social movements act to shape public memory as well as how memory plays an important role within social movements through 15 historical case studies spanning labour feminist peace anti-nuclear and urban movements as well as specific examples of ‘memory activism’ from the 19th century to the 21st century. These include transnational and explicitly comparative case studies in addition to cases rooted in German Australian Indian and American history ensuring that the reader gains a real insight into the remembrance of social activism across the globe and in different contexts. The book concludes with an epilogue from a prominent Memory Studies scholar. Bringing together the previously disparate fields of Memory Studies and Social Movement Studies this book systematically scrutinises the two-way relationship between memory and activism and uses case studies to ground students while offering analytical tools for the reader. | Remembering Social Movements Activism and Memory

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Intersections in Basic and Applied Memory Research

Intersections in Basic and Applied Memory Research

In recent years there has been increasing interaction between basic and applied memory researchers ranging from heated debates to highly productive collaborations. This collection of papers - based on presentations at the Third Practical Aspects of Memory conference - reviews the progress as well as obstacles to progress in the ongoing collaboration between basic and applied memory researchers. This volume represents the state of the art in memory research domains that straddle the basic-applied divide. The text is organized around three themes including theoretical and metatheoretical issues concerning the interaction of basic and applied memory research laboratory investigation of real world memory problems and solutions of everyday problems using theoretical concepts derived from basic memory research. The first section illustrates why collaboration between basic and applied memory researchers should be beneficial and provides guidelines for avoiding some of the pitfalls. The second and third sections present some of the most significant contemporary findings by researchers whose work is basic-yet-applicable or applied-yet-theoretically-based. Students and professional memory researchers will find the substantive results to be provocative and theoretically engaging making the information presented in this volume invaluable. These examples of successful application will be of substantial pragmatic value and researchers are certain to be grappling with these issues for years to come. | Intersections in Basic and Applied Memory Research

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Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

In the World Library of Psychologists series international experts present themselves career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books key articles salient research findings and their major theoretical and practical contributions. Alan Baddeley has an international reputation as an eminent scholar and pioneer in the field of human memory and is principally known for the theory of working memory devised with Graham Hitch. This model continues to be valuable today in recognising the functions of short-term memory. This volume includes a specially written introduction by Alan Baddeley which gives an overview of the start of his career and his entry into the field of Psychology. Throughout the book he also provides introductions to the selection of works included and contextualises them in relation to changes in the field during this time. Exploring Working Memory includes the author’s most influential publications on topics including short-term memory the distinctions between short and long-term memory the theory of working memory the phonological loop the concept of the central executive and the episodic buffer. This exceptional selection concludes with an article giving a broad overview of the author’s current views on working memory and its relation to other theories in the field. Through his outstanding work Alan Baddeley has become known as a world-leading expert on human memory. Exploring Working Memory is a unique collection which will be of great interest to both students and researchers interested in human memory from psychology backgrounds. | Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

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Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan

Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan

Excavating the power of memory offers a succinct examination of how memory is constructed embedded and disseminated in contemporary Japanese society. The unique range and perspective of this collection will provide an understanding not found elsewhere. It starts with a lucid introduction of how memory plays a political and wider social role in Japan. Four case studies follow. The first takes up the divergence in memory at the national and subnational levels by analysing the memory of the battle of Okinawa and US military accidents in Okinawa prefecture illuminating how memory in the prefecture embeds Okinawans as victims of mainland Japan and of the United States. The second explores whether Japan’s membership of the International Criminal Court represents a shift in the Japanese government’s negative remembrance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East demonstrating how both courts are largely portrayed as being disconnected in political debates. The third offers an analysis of the surviving letters of the Kamikaze pilots in order to interrogate and compare their presumed identity in the dominant collective memory and their own self-identities. The fourth untangles how the ‘memory of winds’ in Japanese fishing communities remains an expression of social thought that presides over the ‘transmission of meaning’ about fishermen's geographical surroundings. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Japan Forum. | Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan

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Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The book’s underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand memory is performed mediated and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own which affects practices of memory as well as forgetting. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter1. pdfChapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter4. pdfChapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter5. pdf | Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

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Plasticity in the Central Nervous System Learning and Memory

Plasticity in the Central Nervous System Learning and Memory

Catalyzed by the development of new neurobiological and behavioral techniques as well as new conceptual and theoretical approaches to the study of the relationship between brain and behavior research exploring brain functions enabling learning and memory has greatly accelerated in recent years. The chapters in this book reflect current theoretical approaches to the study of brain and memory and provide new insights concerning the cellular bases of memory and the differential involvement of brain systems in different forms of memory. By presenting up-to-date summaries of research investigating brain mechanisms underlying learning and memory these chapters help to place current findings in appropriate theoretical context and further stimulate research inquiry attempting to understand how the brain makes memory. Divided into three sections coverage in this volume includes: * a discussion of pharmacological approaches to the study of brain and memory; * a review of experiments using a variety of techniques including brain lesions brain grafting and electrophysiological recording to investigate the role of different brain regions in learning and memory; and * an examination of molecular analyses of events associated with memory formation. | Plasticity in the Central Nervous System Learning and Memory

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Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies

Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies

The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates intersections and future courses of the field. It is divided in six themed sections: 1)Theories and Perspectives 2) Cultural artefacts Symbols and Social practices 3) Public Transnational and Transitional Memories 4) Technologies of Memory 5) Terror Violence and Disasters 6) and Body and Ecosystems. A strong emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary breadth of Memory Studies with contributions from leading international scholars in sociology anthropology philosophy biology film studies media studies archive studies literature and history. The Handbook addresses the core concerns and foundations of the field while indicating new directions in Memory Studies.

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The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place

The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place

This Handbook explores the latest cross-disciplinary research on the inter-relationship between memory studies place and identity. In the works of dynamic memory there is room for multiple stories versions of the past and place understandings and often resistance to mainstream narratives. Places may live on long after their physical destruction. This collection provides insights into the significant and diverse role memory plays in our understanding of the world around us in a variety of spaces and temporalities and through a variety of disciplinary and professional lenses. Many of the chapters in this Handbook explore place-making its significance in everyday lives and its loss. Processes of displacement where people’s place attachments are violently torn asunder are also considered. Ranging from oral history to forensic anthropology from folklore studies to cultural geographies and beyond the chapters in this Handbook reveal multiple and often unexpected facets of the fascinating relationship between place and memory from the individual to the collective. This is a multi- and intra-disciplinary collection of the latest most influential approaches to the interwoven and dynamic issues of place and memory. It will be of great use to researchers and academics working across Geography Tourism Heritage Anthropology Memory Studies and Archaeology. | The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place

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Crusades and Memory Rethinking Past and Present

Crusades and Memory Rethinking Past and Present

Crusading was a religious movement involving papal authorization the incentive of remission of sins pious motivation on behalf of the individual and the justification of holy war. Much recent historiography in this area has focused on resolving the questions of what a crusade was and why people went on them. But crusading became a cultural and social phenomenon that changed across time and geographical space. In turn crusading was shaped by the ways specific crusades and their participants were remembered in specific historical contexts. Moreover crusade memory had profound effects on the cultivation of family lineage kinship ties national and regional identity and religious orthodoxy. Integrating memory into crusades scholarship thus offers new ways of exploring the aftermath of war the construction of cultural and social memory the role of women and families in this process and the crusading movement itself. This book explores memory as a methodological means of understanding the crusades. It engages with theories of communicative memory social and cultural memory war commemoration and historical processes of remembering. Contributions explore the variety of cultural forms used in cultivating crusade memory. Material visual liturgical and textual objects are all reflective of crusade culture and the process of crafting its memory and the analysis of such sources is of particular interest. This publication furthers new trends in crusade scholarship which understand the crusades as a broad religious movement that called upon and developed within a wider cultural framework than previously acknowledged. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History. | Crusades and Memory Rethinking Past and Present

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Double Exposure Memory and Photography

Double Exposure Memory and Photography

Over the past decade historians and sociologists have increasingly used visual materials in particular photographs in their work. This volume brings together historians sociologists anthropologists and media and visual scholars to articulate how photography as a practice and as a visual medium can provide insights into national memory collective identities and the historical imagination. This collection allows the reader to trace parallel conceptual developments occurring in the sociology and anthropology of memory and in the history and theory of photography and to illustrate the unique angles of vision these disciplines offer. Photographic images commonly accompany historical accounts from documentaries to family scrapbooks and since the early days of commercial photography pictures have been viewed as tools to capture memories. Later critical writing has challenged this equation by inverting it: photos along with other archival practices were often viewed as falling short of their supposed function as vessels of memory and at times even denounced as devices that distorted memories. How does photography participate in the formation and maintenance of collective identities and shared memory discourses from the family to the nation? Furthermore how can we begin to conceptualize photography's effects on the historical imagination of individuals and groups? Double Exposure endeavors to answer these questions by calling attention to the variety of contexts in which images circulate and to the narratives from which they spring and which they in turn shape. This is the latest volume in Transaction's Memory and Narrative series. | Double Exposure Memory and Photography

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European Memory in Populism Representations of Self and Other

European Memory in Populism Representations of Self and Other

European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and populism in contemporary Europe. Focusing on circulating ideas of memory especially European memory in contemporary populist discourses the book also analyses populist ideas in sites and practices of remembrance that usually tend to go unnoticed. More broadly the theoretical heart of the book reflects upon the similarities differences and slippages between memory populism nationalism and cultural racism and the ways in which social memory contributes to give substance to various ideas of what constitutes the ‘people’ in populist discourse and beyond. Bringing together a group of political scientists anthropologists and cultural and memory studies scholars the book illuminates the relationship between memory and populism from different angles and in different contexts. The contributors to the volume discuss dominant notions of European heritage that circulate in the public sphere and in political discourse and consider how the politics of fear relates to such notions of European heritage and identity across and beyond Europe and the European Union. Ultimately this volume will shed light on how notions of a shared European heritage and memory can be used not only to include and connect Europeans but also to exclude some of them. Investigating the ways in which nationalist populist forces mobilize the idea of a shared homogeneous European civilization European Memory in Populism will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of European studies heritage and memory studies migration studies anthropology political science and sociology. Chapters 1 4 6 and 10 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives 4. 0 license. | European Memory in Populism Representations of Self and Other

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Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals as well as the interested public in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory and how this differs from other areas of memory. This book provides accounts of the damage caused to psychology and survivors internationally by false memory groups and ideas. It is unequivocally passionate about the truth of trauma memory and exposing the damaging disinformation that can seep into the field. Contributors to this book include leading professionals from the field of criminology law psychology and psychotherapy in the UK and USA along with survivor-professionals who understand only too well the damage such disinformation can cause. This book is a valuable resource for mental health professionals of all disciplines including those involved with relevant law and public health policy. It will also help survivors and survivor-professionals in gaining insight into the forces resisting disclosure. | Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

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The Wechsler Memory Scale A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers

The Wechsler Memory Scale A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers

The Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) is one of the most popular memory scales in the United States and much of the English-speaking world. This is the first book to systematically trace the evolution of the instrument in terms of its content and structure whilst providing a guide to clinical interpretation and discussing its many research uses. The Wechsler Memory Scale: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers provides a comprehensive review and synthesis of the literature on all the major editions and revisions of the WMS including the Wechsler Memory Scale-I Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised Wechsler Memory Scale-III and the Wechsler Memory Scale-IV. It discusses major factor analytic studies of each version of the test clinical interpretation of each version including studies on malingering uses of each version with special populations and makes suggestions for the next revision (i. e the WMS-V). This book is designed to be a go-to source for all graduate students clinicians and researchers who use the Wechsler Memory Scale as well as to institutions offering formal training in adult clinical and neuropsychological assessment. | The Wechsler Memory Scale A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers

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Learning and Memory Basic Principles Processes and Procedures

Learning and Memory Basic Principles Processes and Procedures

Learning and Memory provides a balanced review of the core methods and the latest research on animal learning and human memory. Topical coverage ranges from the basic and central processes of learning including classical and instrumental conditioning and encoding and storage in long-term memory to topics not traditionally covered such as spatial learning motor skills and implicit memory. The general rules of learning are reviewed along with the exceptions limitations and best applications of these rules. Alternative approaches to learning and memory including cognitive neuroscientific functional and behavioral are also discussed. Individual differences in age gender learning abilities and social and cultural background are explored throughout the text and presented in a dedicated chapter. The relevance of basic principles is highlighted throughout the text with everyday examples that ignite reader interest in addition to more traditional examples from human and animal laboratory studies. Research examples are drawn from education neuropsychology psychiatry nursing and ecological (or everyday) memory. Each chapter begins with an outline and concludes with a detailed summary. Applications and extensions are showcased in text boxes as well as in distinct applications sections in every chapter and review and recapitulation sections are interspersed throughout the chapters. | Learning and Memory Basic Principles Processes and Procedures

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Beyond Memory Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance

Beyond Memory Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance

Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field by viewing silence as a remedy to the traditionally binary approach to our understanding of remembering and forgetting. The international team of contributors examine case studies from colonialism war politics and slavery from across the globe as well as drawing examples from literature philosophy and sites of memory to draw three main conclusions. Firstly that the relationship between remembering and forgetting is relational rather than ‘hermetic’ and the space between the two is often occupied by silence. Secondly silence is a force in itself capable of stimulating more or less remembrance. Finally that silence is a necessary and key element in the interaction between the human mind and the ‘outer world’ and enables people to challenge their understanding of art music literature history and memory. With an introduction by the editors discussing Memory Studies and concluding remarks by Astrid Erll this collection demonstrates that acceptance and consideration of silence as having both a performative and aesthetic dimension is an essential component of history and memory studies. | Beyond Memory Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance

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Cultural Memory From the Sciences to the Humanities

Cultural Memory From the Sciences to the Humanities

Bringing together neuroscientists social scientists and humanities scholars in cross-disciplinary exploration of the topic of cultural memory this collection moves from seminal discussions of the latest findings in neuroscience to variegated specific case studies of social practices and artistic expressions. This volume highlights what can be gained from drawing on broad interdisciplinary contexts in pursuing scholarly projects involving cultural memory and associated topics. The collection argues that contemporary evolutionary science in conjunction with studies interconnecting cognition affect and emotion as well as research on socially mediated memory provides innovatively interdisciplinary contexts for viewing current work on how cultural and social environments influence gene expression and neural circuitry. Building on this foundation Cultural Memory turns to the exploration of the psychological processes and social contexts through which cultural memory is shaped circulated revised and contested. It investigates how various modes of cultural expression—architecture cuisine poetry film and fiction—reconfigure shared conceptualizing patterns and affectively mediated articulations of identity and value. Each chapter showcases research from a wide range of fields and presents diverse interdisciplinary contexts for future scholarship. As cultural memory is a subject that invites interdisciplinary perspectives and is relevant to studying cultures around the world of every era this collection addresses an international readership comprising scholars from the humanities social sciences and natural sciences from advanced undergraduates to senior researchers. | Cultural Memory From the Sciences to the Humanities

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Remembering Italian America Memory Migration Identity

Remembering Italian America Memory Migration Identity

Remembering Italian America: Memory Migration Identity examines the life of Italians in the United States and the role of migration and collective memory in the history of the construction of Italian American identity. Employing the concept of communicative memory the authors explain the processes that gave shape to Italian identity in America and the ways in which a symbolic identity became concretized in Italian American oral histories. The text explores the Italy migrants left behind transatlantic networks the welcome received by the Italian newcomers the socioeconomic fabric of Italian America and the singular worldview that grew out of the immigrant experience. In exploring the role of memory in the construction of Italian American identity the book analyzes the commonalities in the lives of immigrants allowing the Italian American experience to speak to the circumstances of newer immigrant communities and allowing these new immigrant communities to speak to the Italian migrant history. Looking at Italian American culture from a multidisciplinary perspective this volume brings various theoretical perspectives to bear on what why and how questions concerning the Italian American experience. This book will be of interest to students of ethnic studies immigration studies and American/transnational studies as well as American history. Winner of the 2022 Italian American Studies Association Book Award | Remembering Italian America Memory Migration Identity

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Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England Literature and the Erotics of Recollection

Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England Literature and the Erotics of Recollection

This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How do forms of romantic desire underwrite forms of memory? To answer such questions these authors examine drama poetry and prose from both major authors and lesser-studied figures in the canon of Renaissance literature. Alongside a number of insightful readings they show that sonnets enact a sexual exchange of memory; that epics of nationhood cannot help but eroticize their subjects; that the act of sex in Renaissance tragedy too often depends upon violence of the past. Memory these scholars propose re-shapes the concerns of queer and sexuality studies – including the unhistorical the experience of desire and the limits of the body. So too does the erotic revise the dominant trends of memory studies from the rhetoric of the medieval memory arts to the formation of collective pasts. | Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England Literature and the Erotics of Recollection

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