Collective memory

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Collective memory is a term coined by Maurice Halbwachs, separating the notion from the individual memory. The collective memory is shared, passed on and also constructed by the group, or modern society. The debate was taken up by Jan Assmann, who wrote Das kulturelle Gedächtnis (The Cultural Memory). More recently scholars such as Paul Connerton have extended the concept to include the human body as a site for the collective processes of retention and propagation of memory. Pierre Nora's contributions to the role of place and spaces of shared memory (the "lieux de memoire" that we all inhabit) are also significant.

Collective Memory and Memorialization[]

The collective memory of a nation is represented in part by the memorials it chooses to erect. Public memory is enshrined in memorials from the newly opened Holocaust memorial in Berlin to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. Whatever a nation chooses to memorialize in physical monument, or perhaps more significantly, what not to memorialize, is an indicator of the collective memory.

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Middleton,D. and Edwards,D. (1990)(eds). Collective Remembering, London: Sage.

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Billig, M. (1990) Collective memory, ideology and the British Royal family. In: D. Middleton and D. Edwards (eds) Collective Remembering, London: Sage.

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For a Sociology of Collective Memory short discussion with bibliography of French works by Marie-Claire Lavabre, Research Director at CNRS - Centre Marc Bloch (CEVIPOF)
Interdisciplinary Study of Memory Site by John Sutton, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney. Links to many bibliographies
History in the Public Sphere course by Harold Marcuse, History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. With bibliography and links to readings.

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Aspects of memory
Childhood amnesia \| Cryptomnesia \|Cued recall \| Eye-witness testimony \| Memory and emotion \| Forgetting \|Forgetting curve \| Free recall \| Levels-of-processing effect \| Memory consolidation \|Memory decay \| Memory distrust syndrome \|Memory inhibition \| Memory and smell \| Memory for the future \| Memory loss \| Memory optimization \| Memory trace \| Mnemonic \| Memory biases \| Modality effect \| Tip of the tongue \| Lethologica \| Memory loss \|Priming \| Primacy effect \| Reconstruction \| Proactive interference \| Prompting \| Recency effect \| Recall (learning) \| Recognition (learning) \| Reminiscence \| Retention \| Retroactive interference \| Serial position effect \| Serial recall \| Source amnesia \|
Memory theory
Atkinson-Shiffrin \| Baddeley \| CLARION \| Decay theory \| Dual-coding theory \| Interference theory \|Memory consolidation \| Memory encoding \| Memory-prediction framework \| Forgetting \| Recall \| Recognition \|
Mnemonics
Method of loci \| Mnemonic room system \| Mnemonic dominic system \| Mnemonic learning \| Mnemonic link system \|Mnemonic major system \| Mnemonic peg system \| [[]] \|[[]] \|
Neuroanatomy of memory
Amygdala \| Hippocampus \| prefrontal cortex \| Neurobiology of working memory \| Neurophysiology of memory \| Rhinal cortex \| Synapses \|[[]] \|
Neurochemistry of memory
Glutamatergic system \| of short term memory \| [[]] \|[[]] \| [[]] \| [[]] \| [[]] \| [[]] \|[[]] \|
Developmental aspects of memory
Prenatal memory \| \|Childhood memory \| Memory and aging \| [[]] \| [[]] \|
Memory in clinical settings
Alcohol amnestic disorder \| Amnesia \| Dissociative fugue \| False memory syndrome \| False memory \| Hyperthymesia \| Memory and aging \| Memory disorders \| Memory distrust syndrome Repressed memory Traumatic memory \|
Retention measures
Benton \| CAMPROMPT \| Implicit memory testing \| Indirect tests of memory \| MAS \| Memory tests for children \| MERMER \| Rey-15 \| Rivermead \| TOMM \| Wechsler \| WMT \| WRAML2 \|
Treating memory problems
CBT \| EMDR \| Psychotherapy \| Recovered memory therapy \|Reminiscence therapy \| Memory clinic \| Memory training \| Rewind technique \|
Prominant workers in memory\|-
Baddeley \| Broadbent \|Ebbinghaus \| Kandel \|McGaugh \| Schacter \| Treisman \| Tulving \|
Philosophy and historical views of memory
Aristotle \| [[]] \|[[]] \|[[]] \|[[]] \| [[]] \| [[]] \| [[]] \|
Miscellaneous
Journals \| Learning, Memory, and Cognition \|Journal of Memory and Language \|Memory \|Memory and Cognition \| [[]] \| [[]] \| [[]] \|

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