Memory Studies - Science topic

The first of its kind the book traces the construction of post-memory in post-communist Romania. Focusing on the processes gaps, agents, and contradictions of post-memory it examines a range of topics across a variety of disciplines, addressing questions of museums and musealization, law and memory, political trials and retrospective justice, and p...

This book investigates everyday objects in Southeast Asia as integral forms of cultural heritage, examining their functions, significance, and the diverse values and emotions they have embodied over time. By foregrounding material culture, the chapters delve into how these objects—ranging from utilitarian tools to artefacts of personal and communa...

The study is devoted to the analysis of modern practices of media presentation of cemeteries using the example of specific places in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg) and abroad (Paris). The scientific problem is how to broadcast cultural heritage if it is associated with such a place of memory as a cemetery, what is the media image of...

The first of its kind, this book traces the construction of post-memory in post-communist Romania. Focusing on the processes, gaps, agents, and contradictions of post-memory, it examines a range of topics across a variety of disciplines, addressing questions of museums and musealization, law and memory, political trials and retrospective justice, a...

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is primarily examined through official narratives, propaganda, and victims’ testimonies. However, the deeper motivations driving Russian men to enlist and fight often remain underexplored. While Western and Ukrainian media frequently attribute this to Russian propaganda, animosity towards Ukrainians, naivety, or finan...

This volume explores the dynamic interplay between memory and history during the crucial period from the 8th to the 14th century in medieval India. It takes up an interdisciplinary approach and includes contributions from seasoned scholars and emerging researchers across memory studies, folklore, ethnography, linguistics, literary studies, intellec...

Наративизација Холокауста у роману Као злато у ватри одвија се кроз две приповести, примарне, која тече из перспективе приповедача првог поглавља „Градови, године (1941–1994)“, и друге, уметнуте, уоквирене приче нараторке, уједно и јунакиње, Лауре Опришко Вујанов, која посредством сећања (сопственог али и колективног), преточеног у својеврстан рома...

This edited collection examines the intersection between the developing fields of terrorism and cultural memory studies through a detailed study of the 2011 terrorist attack in Norway. It examines how the work of remembrance has been established through arts such as theatre and fiction, and also architecture, heritage and education. It traces the p...

In recent commercial films and TV series about the Mekong River,­­ depictions of natural landscapes tend to be associated with past stories and settings incorporating tropical aesthetics and poetic countryside. Although likewise presenting a nostalgia for the Mekong, the art-house film anthology Mekong 2030 (2020) intersects the green past with dys...

This paper, as a conclusion to this special issue, discusses approaches taken to memory studies of the First World War and what they can tell us about commemoration of the Asia-Pacific War. A lot of work remains to be done in connecting the historiographies of the two world wars of the twentieth century, but this is important if we are to fully und...

This article examines the narrative of migration that circulates among Oshwal Jains today. It does so by closely analyzing a varied corpus of memory-writing, including autobiographies, family histories, community histories, memoirs, and social media discussing the settlement of Oshwal Jains from British India in East Africa between 1890 and 1950, a...

This paper explores the mediational and constitutional role of technical images (both analogue and digital) for the definition and continuity of the sense of self, proposing a new framework within the extended mind theory grounded in recent approaches to memory. Traditional cognitive science often views the mind as confined within the brain, but we...

The article investigates the intersection of memory, music, and historiography, using the Mater Verbi’s choir and the autobiographical writings of the composer Father José Maria Wisniewski as a case study. The primary objective is to analyze how Wisniewski's musical practice and personal documents contribute to the preservation and transmission of...

This book explores contemporary women’s historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with diverse time periods, contexts and cultural settings. The chapters explore how t...

Memory is a dynamic process shaped by ideology, identity, and historical transmission; it is not only recall. It acts as a link between the past and the present, always shaped and reshaped by the social, political, and cultural context of it. This collection looks at memory as a site of negotiation—where media functions as both a custodian and a...

The concept of diaspora, often entangled within the nation-state's rigid boundaries, presents a crucial yet often overlooked lens to denaturalise ossified narratives associated with the linear progression towards the centralised ‘neutral’ state. In crossing borders and boundaries, the Algerian diaspora in France occupies a liminal space that contin...

Introduction . The space race plays an important role in shaping the modern narrative, justifying political ambitions, technological progress, and the status quo. Therefore, the aim of the article is to analyze the image of confrontation between two superpowers during the space race. Methodology and sources. The article uses a comparative analysis...

This paper traces annual commemorations of two anti-Muslim massacres in recent Canadian history: the 2017 shooting at a mosque in Québec City and the 2021 vehicle-ramming attack against a Muslim family in London, Ontario. Both attacks have prompted numerous commemorative efforts and emerged at the forefront of public debates around Islamophobia, fa...

According to the synaptic tagging-and-capture hypothesis, long-lasting (late-phase) plasticity requires the synthesis of plasticity-related proteins and the setting of a synaptic tag at the stimulated synapse. It has been hypothesized that this tag is implemented by the complex interplay between dendritic spine geometry and the scaffolding protein...

This paper attempts to reconceptualize memory as an event from a theological perspective, drawing on the recent dialog between memory studies and Critical Event Studies. To this end, it analyzes the narrative and themes of the 2007 novel Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel, classified as a third-generation Holocaust (narrative) writer in France, w...

Currently, the discussion about the curricularization of extension has been animating course meetings, getting university professors to think about their work outside the university walls. The extension course “History, memory and heritage: elements for professional training in the heritage chain”, held by the Heritage and Memory Studies and Resear...

The research is a unique attempt to analyse the theoretical framework of Cultural Memory Studies, conceptualised in the early 20th century by Maurice Halbwachs. This framework explores the reciprocal relationship between culture and memory, contextualising individual memory within a broader cultural context. Memories of the past shape our perceptio...

Through the case study of Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel (train-station district), this article investigates how a new generation of Jewish and Muslim entrepreneurs resists the preconceived community labels through discourses of hybridity, shared interests and ambivalent experiences of being a minority in Germany, in a way which resembles Stuart Hall’...

W swoim artykule zamierzam porównać dwie współczesne powieści rdzennych Amerykanów ze społeczności Odżibuejów skonstruowane wokół tematu śmierci. The Painted Drum Louise Erdrich i Prudence Davida Treuera to elegijne opowieści o sposobach konfrontowania się z żałobą w kontekście indywidualnym i zbiorowym, w ujęciu kultury Zachodu (euro-amerykańskiej...

The presentation explores the evolution of memory studies, highlighting historical mi lestones, recent advancements, and future perspectives. In the past, research focused on foundational models, such as those by Ebbinghaus, which introduced concepts like forgetting curves and repetition. Currently, research encompasses areas such as cognitive neur...

The pervasive use of media at current-day festivals thoroughly impacts how these live events are experienced, anticipated, and remembered. This empirical study examined eventgoers’ live media practices – taking photos, making videos, and in-the-moment sharing of content on social media platforms – at three large cultural events in the Netherlands....

This bibliometric study analyzed recent research trends, global and local publications, and interdisciplinary connections in folk literature from 2020 to 2024, focusing on annual scientific production, publication distribution, citation patterns, and collaboration metrics. A total of 1,399 publications from the Scopus database were examined using M...

Background and Objectives This study provides the first analysis of heterogeneity in health care use and costs by level of dementia symptom severity around the time of incident dementia diagnosis for a population representative sample of older Americans. Research Design and Methods We used the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS), the Hea...

Objective. Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are very common and associated with high levels of distress, both in dementia patients and their caregivers. Especially at more advanced dementia disease stages, NPS rarely occur in isolation, and the presence of two or more NPS may affect disease severity as well as the response to therapy. There is limit...

The use of scaffolds for osteochondral tissue regeneration requires an appropriate selection of materials and manufacturing techniques that provide the basis for supporting both cartilage and bone tissue formation. As scaffolds are designed to replicate a part of the replaced tissue and ensure cell growth and differentiation, implantable materials...

Background It is increasingly clear that delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia by several years can meaningfully lower its prevalence. The goal of the present study is to examine the relationship between lifestyle activities and cognition function as well as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of AD to determine whether these act...

Background High fat diets are a risk factor for Alzheimer Dementia (AD) but little is known about the effect of acute high fat feeding on brain lipid metabolism. Previous studies suggest that diet results may differ by APOE genotype and sex. Here we examined cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lipidomic profiles after high and low fat feeding in a group of o...

Background Research on cognitive reserve (CR) in individuals aged 80 years old and above has resulted in inconsistent findings, mostly showing a relationship with baseline cognitive abilities but not follow up assessments. The effects of amyloid burden on the relationship between CR, cognitive decline and dementia in oldest old warrants further stu...

The article examines the themes and developments in foreign memory studies, focusing on the ways the German Democratic Republic was remembered and reinterpreted in German society following Germany’s unification in 1990. The emphasis is on monographs and collections of articles published in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States since 20...

Background Cross‐national comparisons of dementia prevalence are essential for identifying unique determinants and cultural‐specific risk factors, but methodological differences in dementia ascertainment across countries hinder global comparisons. This study maps the 10/66 Dementia Research Group algorithm for dementia ascertainment, widely used an...

Background α‐Synuclein is the hallmark pathology of Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, described together as Lewy body disease (LBD). α‐Synuclein is also commonly observed in the context of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here we investigate the frequency of α‐synuclein positivity in an AD research cohort and clinically unimpaired individ...

Background Women’s reproductive experiences may enact reorganization of physiological systems with lifelong health consequences. We test the hypothesis that women’s history of breastfeeding will be positively associated with neurocognitive benefits in post‐menopausal women. This hypothesis is justified by breastfeeding’s well‐established benefits f...

Background Late‐life exposure to PM2.5 is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias. Accelerated brain aging associated with PM2.5 exposure likely takes place at preclinical stage. In Feb.2024, US EPA lowered the annual standard for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from 12‐ to 9‐µg/m³. Whether the new exposure standard is suff...

A two-way immigration flow has been established between Brazil and Japan, and many Japanese-Brazilian families have their memories shaped by these transnational movements. By collecting life stories from first-, second-, third-, and fourth-generation women from the same family, we found that their memories are highly intermingled with food-related...

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s internationally celebrated memoir , Guantánamo Diary (2015), written while he was still imprisoned without charge, has been described as the ‘true witness’ of Guantánamo. Translated into multiple languages, it has featured in activist campaigns and has inspired readings, films, podcasts, plays, and panel discussions. As such,...

This article critically examines contemporary art installations by two British artists responding to two major memory sites of British imperial and national history: 1) Trafalgar Square, one of the biggest squares in central London, a former imperial crossroads, surrounded by Canada House and South Africa House and only steps away from Admiralty Ar...

The theory of the social construction of reality allows us to postulate one of the main functions of journalism in contemporary society: its capacity to produce truths and, consequently, to identify the problems that human groups face in the political, economic and social spheres. This is one of the reasons why the systematic study of the press bec...

The trauma Romanian women endured under Ceaușescu’s pro-natalist policies, particularly Decree 770, persists long after 1989 as a form of collective memory. This memory is not only conveyed through literary and cinematic works, with critical reflections emerging only in the early 2000s, after a decade of societal silence. The legacy of forced mothe...

This work constitutes a proposal for the elaboration of personal archives of individuals who have committed crimes and offences, as members of the repressive apparatus of the State (the police and other non-military law enforcement forces), and who have been characterized by their high degree of corruption, as well as by the violation of the Human...

The article is devoted to the consideration of speechlessness as a way of expressing trauma in the novel “Die Verwandelten” (2023) by the modern German writer Ulrike Draesner. Speechlessness, as the study finds out, appears here as an opportunity to identify individual trauma and its corresponding image. The methodological basis for the analysis is...

Статья посвящена анализу рассуждений русской писательницы и поэтессы Марии Степановой по поводу семейной истории, её места и значения в русле мировых событий. Художественному осмыслению подвергается место в памяти для активных участников большой истории и тех, которые — как в случае членов семьи Степановой — остались для истории невидимыми. Методол...

Purpose. The main content of the presented study is a philosophical and anthropological analysis of the problem of memory in the context of the phenomenon of forgetting, the essential factors of establishing a new image of the Ukrainian person, his/her national memory and identity. This circumstance, in the situation of Ukraine’s defence against th...

The article is devoted to the study of current changes that are taking place in connection with the Russian-Ukrainian war and the transformation of narrative memorial practices in Ukrainian literature and artistic practices. The focus of attention is on both traditional practices of documenting the memory of the war, as well as those that reinterpr...

This article sets out to present the design and output of the research project MEMORO: The Novel of Memory in Postcommunism: Subgenres, Generations, Transnational Networks. The project aimed at providing a qualitative and quantitative research of the novel of memory in the Romanian literary field after 1989, using recent theories and methodologies...

Looking at three museums: in Zagreb-Croatian History Museum-, and in Belgrade-Historical Museum of Serbia and Museum of Yugoslavia-, we analyze institutional narrative shifts during the dissolution of the country and the Yugoslav wars, and since 2010 till today. Using critical discourse analysis, embedded in memory studies, we analyze museums' webs...

The paper is an attempt at metasearch reflection on the current discursive positioning of disciplinary history in relation to methodological issues focused on its scientific status in confrontation with historical Pyrrhonism. This attempt is developed in the following threads: tropes of the crisis discourse and tropes of the modernisation discourse...

Typology and Performance: In: Anthropology and Folklore ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1510-9805 History of “Folkloric Behavior” in the Folklore Dept. For the first time in the discipline of Folklore, a professor of psychology agreed to be a member of El-Shamy’s Dissertation: “folkloric Behavior”. The dissertation which transformed folklore in...

This article develops the concept of populist truth-making as a device to study the effects of populist politics on museums in Europe. Despite a growing interest in the (mis)uses of the past by populist politics in heritage and memory studies, our understanding of how populist politics affect museums and other heritage institutions is still limited...

This paper is a close analysis of contemporary artistic actions related to the destroyed bridges of Novi Sad that are here for the first time collected and selected – actions by association Scenatoria, Igor Friedrich Petković, association Apsolutno, collective Led Art/Art Clinic/Shock Commune, Dragan Živančević and Andrej Tišma. These actions are i...

The use of Kalembo Ade as a local identity leaves a concern for its speakers to interpret this expression in a literal sense. This research aims to explore a deep understanding of the local idiom Kalembo Ade both literally and in the context of its use and explore the values implied by the use of the idiom Kalembo Ade in the lives of its origin. By...

This article aims to examine the Maluku Protestant Church (GPM) Congregation Songbook using the kinetic memory study to find the representation of folksong in implementing worship in Maluku. The author uses descriptive qualitative methods with data collection techniques and interviews with key informants, including the GPM synod chairman and two so...

INTRODUCTION The availability of amyloid beta (Aβ) targeting therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasing the demand for scalable biomarkers that are sensitive to early cerebral Aβ accumulation. METHODS We evaluated fully‐automated Lumipulse plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 immunoassays for detecting cerebral Aβ in 457 clinically unimpaired (CU) and clini...

The article presents the international digital humanities project called History of Everyday Life Database and its possibilities for use in humanities research. The foundations of this project, which is run by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, were laid in the 1990s. Its main goal is to form a digital collection of sources...

The advent of the internet has significantly impacted Sinophone literature. However, when discussing the relationship between the internet and literature, most scholars focus on genre fiction, whereas Jin Yucheng’s (金宇澄, 1952-) novel Blossoms (繁花) stands as an exception to this paradigm despite being first posted online. Focusing on the societal co...

Historically silenced, literary mothers’ voices are finally now being given their due, but it is noteworthy that migrant mothers’ literary voices are yet to be fully heard. This essay focuses on literary representations of migrant mothers who refuse to speak their own mother tongue to their children. It looks at two texts by women writers originati...

Abstract: Abstract: In the middle of the nineteenth century, Indian indentured labour was exported to British overseas colonies with sugar, cotton, and indigo plantations. These workers of mainly East Uttar Pradesh and West Bihar origin were shipped to very faraway lands: Mauritius, Fiji, Trinidad, Guyana, and South Africa during the high tide of B...

The aim of this study is to provide a historiographical and source-based review of research on Nazi regime crimes during World War II in Ukraine, specifically concerning the murder of psychiatric hospital patients. This group of citizens had been dehumanized by the Nazi regime even before the war and fell under the category of "unworthy life". The...

The research aims to determine the linguocultural specifics of representing the border as an element of collective memory in the literary “discourse of the wall”, using the Russian and German languages as case studies. Memorial narratives about the Berlin Wall, concerning its territorial-architectural form, public perception, and ambiguous assessme...

This review explores Jorge Santos’ Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement (University of Texas Press, 2019), which analyzes how graphic novels reframe cultural memory of the civil rights movement through visual storytelling. Santos critiques “consensus memory” for oversimplifying the movement, highlighting how comics offer counter-memory by...

As the world’s largest online virtual pet community, Tencent pets had accompanied numerous Chinese netizens, particularly the younger generations. It was not only their earliest “Internet memories”, but also became an integrated part of their personal life experiences, even influencing their understanding of social life. Through textual statistics,...

The article is devoted to the consideration of the images of I. Stalin and A. Hitler in historical memory. The construction of ideas about the past is based on the possibilities of media, which in the digital age are becoming limitless. With the help of media, images of the past are integrated into the agenda and actualized in the mass consciousnes...

The dissertation is theoretically grounded in folklore studies and explores the combination of folk ornament and mythology in Latvian culture. Besides exploring folk ornament in contemporary settings shaped by a neoliberal market economy, the dissertation analyzes the origins of the folk ornament and mythology nexus, showing it to be rooted in inte...

This article explores the agency of the architectural travel sketch and considers its narrative and strategic value as a tool of remembering, distorting, and forgetting. Based upon original archival research, the paper focuses on annotated sketches that Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965) included in the 1950 book Le Modulor, in the cha...

This theoretical article explores the emerging concept and approach of slow memory and its relevance to dark heritage sites, focusing on how slow violence continues to impact the communities and histories these sites commemorate. It addresses the key research question: How does slow memory, which highlights gradual and often obscured forms of viole...

The aim of this article is to deepen the reflection on the ways in which the events of March ’68 in Poland are described by those who were targeted by the brutal anti-Semitic campaign of the period. The main analytical category used here is “experience” as proposed by Martin Jay, in which the distinction between Erfahrung and Erlebnis is of fundame...

This article uses a dialogue between memory studies (MS) and ethnographic and interactional sociolinguistics (EIS) to explore the dynamics of interdisciplinarity. MS focuses on the social remembering of high-profile and often traumatic events, and this is relevant to EIS's growing interest in (in)securitization. MS is increasingly keen to explore e...

On January 30, 2022, Northern Ireland observed the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On that day in 1972, the British Army opened fire on a group of unarmed protesters in Derry, killing 13 and wounding an additional 15. Bloody Sunday was a pivotal moment during the 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles, a day widely consid...

This paper investigates the effect a famous past can have on the prosperity of a city, in this case Roman Sparta and modern Sparti. Through these case studies the analysis uncovers insights that add to our understanding of Roman Sparta, but more pertinently can be applied to the modern city. Sparti faces societal and economic challenges, whilst liv...

This article examines the significance of music as a medium of memory in the broader context of Romani World War II remembrance and human rights activism of the last decade. It specifically focusses on the oratorio Symphonia Romani – Bari Duk by Adrian Gaspar and the documentary film Dui Rroma by Gaspar’s mother Iovanca Gaspar as memory media (Erll...

The article intricately explores the nexus of politics and security enveloping the notion of the Macedonian state, with a specific focus on analyzing the narrative and collective memory tied to the 1903 Ilinden Uprising. As the country marks its 120th anniversary, the state elites and socjety stand at a pivotal juncture, grappling with a pervasive...

This article investigates how fallen British soldiers of Operation TELIC (Iraq) and Operation Herrick (Afghanistan) are commemorated on the Facebook page British Troops Remembered. Based on an online ethnography and fifteen semi-structured interviews with users of this page, this article aims to better understand how online commemoration is perform...

While it is well-established that authentic emotional autobiographical memories elicit physiological responses, research suggests that this elicitation can also occur for fabricated autobiographical memories. Yet challenges arise from awareness discrepancies when considering two research fields: Participants in memory studies may be unaware of prod...

In the context of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile, questions about what, how, and from where to transmit memories of the past are pressing. In memory studies, research on generational transmission has been situated in post-conflict scenarios, centered mainly on the entrepreneurs of memory, what is transmitted a...

It has long been believed that individual human memory has been strengthened by the storage, representational, reproductive, and connective capacities of technologies and media. However, such views of how memory works are being challenged amidst today's digital maelstrom. In particular, the Internet, and social media platforms, have profoundly tran...

This paper delves into the intricate interplay between memory, collective trauma, and identity formation in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Central to the analysis is the protagonist's poignant inquiry into the cessation of war's lingering influence on personal recollection and individual agency. Drawing upon T.S. Eliot’s thematic mo...

This paper contributes to the scholarly study of the Puyas, ancient textsthat are central to the Meitei traditional knowledge system. Despite theirlimited availability in the public domain, there is a growing scholarlyinterest in these texts as vital sources for understanding Manipur’s earlyand medieval history. The paper addresses the methodologic...

The highly reputed novel or literary documentary Austerlitz (2001) by Winfried. G. Sebald has attracted much critical respect and high praise. Sebald worked intensively with various sources reflecting on the Holocaust, and one of those, H. G. Adler’s Theresienstadt 1941–1945 (first published in 1955), formed the backbone of Austerlitz. One of the s...

Background Apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) ε4 allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This case-cohort study used targeted plasma biomarkers and large-scale proteomics to examine the biological mechanisms that allow some APOE ε4 carriers to maintain normal cognitive functioning in older adulthood. Methods APO...

The article analyzes how Russian independent media create a communicative memory of Russia's war against Ukraine after the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Despite the condemnation of the war by all media outlets, the highest-rated ones ("Rain", "Popular Politics", "Navalny LIVE", and "Alive Nail") marginalize the testimonies of Ukrainian...

Любителям и знатокам европейской истории название книги Изабеллы Агарди «На краю истории: Истории жизни сельских женщин Сербии, Румынии и Венгрии, 1920–2020» не может не напомнить известную работу Натали Земон Дэвис «Дамы на обочине» (Women on the Margins) ([1995] 2021). В том, что это не случайное совпадение, а умышленная отсылка, мы убеждаемся на...

If a witness to a crime provides a description of a perpetrator prior to identifying the perpetrator, the witness’s recognition accuracy will be compromised—this phenomenon is referred to as verbal overshadowing. The present study reports two recognition memory studies testing the criterion shift hypothesis of verbal overshadowing. In Experiment 1,...

Кристина Гедгаудайте – молодая исследовательница-неоэллинист. Ее книга посвящена тому, как в современной Греции живут воспоминания о великой потере страны – о Малой Азии. Несмотря на то, что вся монография написана про память о конкретных исторических событиях, параграф под названием «Исторический контекст» появляется только в середине второй главы...

In contrast to the sensational upsurge of cultural memory studies at the global level, represented by the proliferation of research centers, conferences, and publications specializing in this relatively new field, as well as the teaching of this field at some international universities as an academic accompaniment to the ever-growing social and c...

Author summary Episodic memory is a critical aspect of everyday life that allows us to recall events, make decisions, and navigate our environments. It is estimated that 1 in 25 Americans suffer from episodic memory loss from Alzheimer ‘s disease, dementia, or following a traumatic brain injury. Clinicians and researchers have recently tried to hel...

Within Holocaust studies, there has been an increasingly uncritical acceptance that by engaging with social media, Holocaust memory has shifted from the ‘era of the witness’ to the ‘era of the user’ (Hogervorst 2020). This paper starts by problematising this proposition. This claim to a paradigmatic shift implies that (1) the user somehow replaces...

Recent meta-analytic evidence has underscored the significant role of the default mode network (DMN) in facilitating item word encoding. This study builds on this finding through a comprehensive meta-analysis of fMRI-based subsequent memory studies that use words as stimuli. The results highlight several key functions within the DMN. Firstly, the d...

The Memory Studies Association invites proposals for its ninth annual conference, to be held from 14 to 18 July 2025 at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in the historic city of Prague. This on-site conference aims to carry over from earlier conferences a transdisciplinary conversation on memory and its social, cultural and publi...

Background Directional vibrotactile biofeedback for balance control can be instructed in the form of Repulsive (to move in the opposite direction of vibrations) or Attractive (to move in the direction of vibrations) stimulus encodings. However, which of these encodings is less cognitively demanding and poses less interference with high-level cognit...

In recent years, research has progressively increased the importance of considering sex differences in stress and fear memory studies. Many studies have traditionally focused on male subjects, potentially overlooking critical differences with females. Emerging evidence suggests that males and females can exhibit distinct behavioral and neurophysiol...

FULL VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM6LQlfc9nQ&t=3652s In view of the crisis-ridden character of global capitalism, the concept of class is receiving renewed attention across many scholarly disciplines. The 2024 MMRC Lecture invites different perspectives on the connections between class and music as a political instrument, an econom...

The academic field of memory studies in Colombia is broad and diverse. This article explores its boundaries to open new dialogues and perspectives, proposing an assessment of the shared interests, connections, and areas of focus between memory studies and heritage studies in Colombia. The goal is to strengthen this association and consider the futu...

Wieso ist Wissen zu NS-Zwangsarbeit in einer ländlichen Gegend, wo Nachkommen ehemaliger NS-Zwangsarbeiter_innen leben, gleichzeitig an- und abwesend? Basierend auf Interviews mit ihnen sowie mit Nachkommen von Zwangsarbeits-Profiteur_innen wird gezeigt, wie ineinander verflochtenes gesellschaftliches Erinnern und Vergessen vonstattengehen. Dafür m...

In the past two decades, the field of memory studies has evolved significantly, yet skepticism regarding the concept of memory persists. Despite this, Czech scholars continue to engage actively with memory concepts, often emphasizing their relevance in the humanities. This article explores the complexities of "places of memory," a term popularized...