Zoe Vania Waxman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199541546
- eISBN:
- 9780191709739
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541546.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The book concludes by reflecting on the future of testimony. Today survivors are still coming forward to tell their stories, leaving behind not only a record for their children and grandchildren, but ...
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The book concludes by reflecting on the future of testimony. Today survivors are still coming forward to tell their stories, leaving behind not only a record for their children and grandchildren, but evidence for posterity. However, as the events of the Holocaust recede further into the past, it becomes increasingly important to engage in the task of active remembering. Without an understanding of the complex nature of testimony and representation, and a willingness to document fully the lives of witnesses and the diversity of their experiences, it is likely that the Holocaust will remain a dark period of history that is constantly referred to but never fully comprehended or explored.Less
The book concludes by reflecting on the future of testimony. Today survivors are still coming forward to tell their stories, leaving behind not only a record for their children and grandchildren, but evidence for posterity. However, as the events of the Holocaust recede further into the past, it becomes increasingly important to engage in the task of active remembering. Without an understanding of the complex nature of testimony and representation, and a willingness to document fully the lives of witnesses and the diversity of their experiences, it is likely that the Holocaust will remain a dark period of history that is constantly referred to but never fully comprehended or explored.
Marcia Cavell
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199287086
- eISBN:
- 9780191603921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199287082.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter discusses Freud’s thoughts about memory and the inter-related concepts of remembering, repeating, and working through. Freud believes that the present mind contains the past, though ...
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This chapter discusses Freud’s thoughts about memory and the inter-related concepts of remembering, repeating, and working through. Freud believes that the present mind contains the past, though often in unrecognizable form. Remembering — unlike its avoidance, repetition — allows for working through: clarifying, and integrating into the fabric of the mind, something previously warded off. The concepts of repression, remembering, repetition, working through, transference, and mourning together draw a conceptual map that Freud continually refined.Less
This chapter discusses Freud’s thoughts about memory and the inter-related concepts of remembering, repeating, and working through. Freud believes that the present mind contains the past, though often in unrecognizable form. Remembering — unlike its avoidance, repetition — allows for working through: clarifying, and integrating into the fabric of the mind, something previously warded off. The concepts of repression, remembering, repetition, working through, transference, and mourning together draw a conceptual map that Freud continually refined.
Thomas F. Shipley and Jeffrey M. Zacks (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195188370
- eISBN:
- 9780199870462
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
We effortlessly remember all sorts of events — from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in ...
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We effortlessly remember all sorts of events — from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on even perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception — in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science — has progressed without much interaction. This book brings together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events.Less
We effortlessly remember all sorts of events — from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on even perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception — in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science — has progressed without much interaction. This book brings together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events.
Charlotte Linde
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195140286
- eISBN:
- 9780199871247
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140286.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This book analyzes the role of narratives in institutions, showing how institutions use narratives to remember their past and project a future, and how people within institutions shape and are shaped ...
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This book analyzes the role of narratives in institutions, showing how institutions use narratives to remember their past and project a future, and how people within institutions shape and are shaped by institutional stories. The central example provides an ethnography of the structure and use of stories in an American insurance company. Narratives within institutions are used to negotiate collective and individual identity. These identities shape the way collectivities and individuals use, change or contest presentations of the past. Identity and memory are mutually constructed through the use of narrative. This book examines not only the stories that exist within institutions, but also the ways that members use them, demonstrating the key role of proper occasions for telling them. Institutional occasions allow stories to be retold, and thus to extend their future use beyond the memories of their original participants. Analysis of multiple retellings shows both the formation of the core story stock of an institution, and the effect of the speaker's position on the form of a story as it is retold on particular occasions to particular audiences. Individuals' stories are shaped by their memberships: part of being a member is knowing how to tell one's story in relation to the institution's stories. This study also examines silences within institutions. Silences are complex: stories not told in public may have an active life in private conversations. This ethnography of narrative describes the individual and collective work of creating and maintaining narrative memory: the ongoing creation of a useable past.Less
This book analyzes the role of narratives in institutions, showing how institutions use narratives to remember their past and project a future, and how people within institutions shape and are shaped by institutional stories. The central example provides an ethnography of the structure and use of stories in an American insurance company. Narratives within institutions are used to negotiate collective and individual identity. These identities shape the way collectivities and individuals use, change or contest presentations of the past. Identity and memory are mutually constructed through the use of narrative. This book examines not only the stories that exist within institutions, but also the ways that members use them, demonstrating the key role of proper occasions for telling them. Institutional occasions allow stories to be retold, and thus to extend their future use beyond the memories of their original participants. Analysis of multiple retellings shows both the formation of the core story stock of an institution, and the effect of the speaker's position on the form of a story as it is retold on particular occasions to particular audiences. Individuals' stories are shaped by their memberships: part of being a member is knowing how to tell one's story in relation to the institution's stories. This study also examines silences within institutions. Silences are complex: stories not told in public may have an active life in private conversations. This ethnography of narrative describes the individual and collective work of creating and maintaining narrative memory: the ongoing creation of a useable past.
Richard Sorabji
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199256600
- eISBN:
- 9780191712609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256600.003.0017
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Does what is wholly past provoke no emotion? Should we feel the same about past and future non-existence? Ought we to remember good things in the past, and bad equally, the good to distract from ...
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Does what is wholly past provoke no emotion? Should we feel the same about past and future non-existence? Ought we to remember good things in the past, and bad equally, the good to distract from present pain, the bad to create a narrative of self, or because there is pleasure in remembering bad survived? But then there is pain in remembering pleasure lost. Is repentance good or bad? Is hope good, or should we pin no hopes on the future? Does anticipating misfortune fortify or depress? Is planning for the future needed for self-identity? Should we ignore both past and future, or abstract from time altogether? Does prolongation or delay make a difference, or an endless recurrence of history, or discontinuous, or dispersible, or everlasting selves? Can we create a persona through memory, or through choices? Can we create an inviolable self?Less
Does what is wholly past provoke no emotion? Should we feel the same about past and future non-existence? Ought we to remember good things in the past, and bad equally, the good to distract from present pain, the bad to create a narrative of self, or because there is pleasure in remembering bad survived? But then there is pain in remembering pleasure lost. Is repentance good or bad? Is hope good, or should we pin no hopes on the future? Does anticipating misfortune fortify or depress? Is planning for the future needed for self-identity? Should we ignore both past and future, or abstract from time altogether? Does prolongation or delay make a difference, or an endless recurrence of history, or discontinuous, or dispersible, or everlasting selves? Can we create a persona through memory, or through choices? Can we create an inviolable self?
Charlotte Linde
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195140286
- eISBN:
- 9780199871247
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140286.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter introduces the question of how institutions use narrative to remember, showing the importance not only of stories but of occasions on which they can be told. It reviews the key questions ...
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This chapter introduces the question of how institutions use narrative to remember, showing the importance not only of stories but of occasions on which they can be told. It reviews the key questions of the literatures in different disciplines that treat institutional or collective memory. The most general question is whether institutions can be said to remember. History's question is Whose past? The social sciences' question is How do social structures reproduce themselves? Business and management studies' practical question is How to keep the knowledge while losing the people? This chapter argues that institutions and their members do not mechanically reproduce the past. Rather, they work the past, reshaping stories to create a desired present and future. Therefore, to understand narratives in institutions, it is necessary to understand both the stories that are told, and the occasions of their telling.Less
This chapter introduces the question of how institutions use narrative to remember, showing the importance not only of stories but of occasions on which they can be told. It reviews the key questions of the literatures in different disciplines that treat institutional or collective memory. The most general question is whether institutions can be said to remember. History's question is Whose past? The social sciences' question is How do social structures reproduce themselves? Business and management studies' practical question is How to keep the knowledge while losing the people? This chapter argues that institutions and their members do not mechanically reproduce the past. Rather, they work the past, reshaping stories to create a desired present and future. Therefore, to understand narratives in institutions, it is necessary to understand both the stories that are told, and the occasions of their telling.
Charlotte Linde
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195140286
- eISBN:
- 9780199871247
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140286.003.0003
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter discusses occasions for remembering. Occasions are a key issue for understanding how institutions work their past: they allow the study of remembering rather than the study of static ...
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This chapter discusses occasions for remembering. Occasions are a key issue for understanding how institutions work their past: they allow the study of remembering rather than the study of static representations of the past. An institution's narratives may be collected in an archive, but if this collection is rarely used, the narratives have no life of their own. Rather, it is necessary to discover the activities in which such representations are used. For an institution, remembering necessarily is a social event, involving at least two, and perhaps millions of people. Retelling and remembering of this sort require proper occasions. Without its proper occasion, a story rarely or never gets told. This chapter presents a taxonomy of the types of occasions for narrative, including events, places, memorials, and memory artifacts.Less
This chapter discusses occasions for remembering. Occasions are a key issue for understanding how institutions work their past: they allow the study of remembering rather than the study of static representations of the past. An institution's narratives may be collected in an archive, but if this collection is rarely used, the narratives have no life of their own. Rather, it is necessary to discover the activities in which such representations are used. For an institution, remembering necessarily is a social event, involving at least two, and perhaps millions of people. Retelling and remembering of this sort require proper occasions. Without its proper occasion, a story rarely or never gets told. This chapter presents a taxonomy of the types of occasions for narrative, including events, places, memorials, and memory artifacts.
Sven Bernecker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199577569
- eISBN:
- 9780191722820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577569.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter argues against the widespread epistemic theory of memory which consists of two interrelated claims. The first claim is that to remember a proposition is to know it, where this knowledge ...
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This chapter argues against the widespread epistemic theory of memory which consists of two interrelated claims. The first claim is that to remember a proposition is to know it, where this knowledge was previously acquired and preserved. The second claim is that memory can only preserve knowledge from one time to another but cannot generate new justification and knowledge. Both aspects of the epistemic theory of memory are shown to be mistaken. It is possible to remember something in the present that one didn't justifiably believe in the past. Likewise one may acquire in the meantime some plausible but misleading evidence that destroys the status as justified belief of the once‐genuine justified belief that one still remembers. Moreover, cases of ignorant remembering show that one can remember something that one doesn't believe. In sum then, knowledge supervenes on some but not all cases of propositional remembering. Unlike knowledge, memory implies neither belief nor justification. But the epistemic theory of memory is not only wrong in holding that memory is a form of knowledge. It is also mistaken in assuming that memory cannot alter the epistemic status of a belief. Memory doesn't merely have the capacity to preserve epistemic features generated by other sources but that it is also a generative epistemic source.Less
This chapter argues against the widespread epistemic theory of memory which consists of two interrelated claims. The first claim is that to remember a proposition is to know it, where this knowledge was previously acquired and preserved. The second claim is that memory can only preserve knowledge from one time to another but cannot generate new justification and knowledge. Both aspects of the epistemic theory of memory are shown to be mistaken. It is possible to remember something in the present that one didn't justifiably believe in the past. Likewise one may acquire in the meantime some plausible but misleading evidence that destroys the status as justified belief of the once‐genuine justified belief that one still remembers. Moreover, cases of ignorant remembering show that one can remember something that one doesn't believe. In sum then, knowledge supervenes on some but not all cases of propositional remembering. Unlike knowledge, memory implies neither belief nor justification. But the epistemic theory of memory is not only wrong in holding that memory is a form of knowledge. It is also mistaken in assuming that memory cannot alter the epistemic status of a belief. Memory doesn't merely have the capacity to preserve epistemic features generated by other sources but that it is also a generative epistemic source.
Garry L. Hagberg
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199234226
- eISBN:
- 9780191715440
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199234226.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
This chapter starts with the issue of remembering what we meant. It discusses subjects such as ‘Reporting’ on an inner process: the very idea, stipulating meaning versus remembering meaning, ...
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This chapter starts with the issue of remembering what we meant. It discusses subjects such as ‘Reporting’ on an inner process: the very idea, stipulating meaning versus remembering meaning, competing conceptions of meaning something, the idea of an act of meaning something, presently referring to one thing rather than another (e.g., to a pain rather than to the sound of a piano), remembering a past connection versus making a connection presently, and ‘de-psychologizing’ meaning. It also details preserving first-person authority and gives the example of Augustine remembering. The mind's image of itself is also mentioned.Less
This chapter starts with the issue of remembering what we meant. It discusses subjects such as ‘Reporting’ on an inner process: the very idea, stipulating meaning versus remembering meaning, competing conceptions of meaning something, the idea of an act of meaning something, presently referring to one thing rather than another (e.g., to a pain rather than to the sound of a piano), remembering a past connection versus making a connection presently, and ‘de-psychologizing’ meaning. It also details preserving first-person authority and gives the example of Augustine remembering. The mind's image of itself is also mentioned.
Thomas L. Brodie
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195138368
- eISBN:
- 9780199834037
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195138368.003.0037
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
The narrative recounts first, how the butler finally remembered his sins and Joseph, thus bringing Joseph to be in charge of the famine situation (Genesis 41), and then how the famished brothers went ...
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The narrative recounts first, how the butler finally remembered his sins and Joseph, thus bringing Joseph to be in charge of the famine situation (Genesis 41), and then how the famished brothers went to Egypt and there began to remember Joseph and their sin (Genesis 42). Joseph's treatment of his brother may seem harsh, but immediate self‐revelation would have left them feeling guilty. Instead, he leads them into a process of remembering, into a conversion that will restore their self‐respect.Less
The narrative recounts first, how the butler finally remembered his sins and Joseph, thus bringing Joseph to be in charge of the famine situation (Genesis 41), and then how the famished brothers went to Egypt and there began to remember Joseph and their sin (Genesis 42). Joseph's treatment of his brother may seem harsh, but immediate self‐revelation would have left them feeling guilty. Instead, he leads them into a process of remembering, into a conversion that will restore their self‐respect.
Lynne Baker-Ward, Peter A. Ornstein, and Lauren P. Starnes
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195326932
- eISBN:
- 9780199870318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326932.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Autobiographical memory involves a set of constructive processes that can continue long after an experience has ended but which nonetheless influence our understanding and memory of the events of our ...
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Autobiographical memory involves a set of constructive processes that can continue long after an experience has ended but which nonetheless influence our understanding and memory of the events of our lives. This chapter considers these constructive processes as they impact children's understanding of emotionally significant experiences and their subsequent memory for these events. It suggests that the processes involved in the encoding of information in memory are knowledge-driven and extended in time. Children's understanding of the events that they experience is critical for subsequent remembering, and comprehension is driven by both endogenous and exogenous forces that may operate long after an event has ended. In turn, our understanding of children's abilities to remember events, especially those that are emotionally laden, requires an analysis of the factors that influence the establishment and modification—through extended encoding—of representations in memory.Less
Autobiographical memory involves a set of constructive processes that can continue long after an experience has ended but which nonetheless influence our understanding and memory of the events of our lives. This chapter considers these constructive processes as they impact children's understanding of emotionally significant experiences and their subsequent memory for these events. It suggests that the processes involved in the encoding of information in memory are knowledge-driven and extended in time. Children's understanding of the events that they experience is critical for subsequent remembering, and comprehension is driven by both endogenous and exogenous forces that may operate long after an event has ended. In turn, our understanding of children's abilities to remember events, especially those that are emotionally laden, requires an analysis of the factors that influence the establishment and modification—through extended encoding—of representations in memory.
Michael Davis, Elizabeth F. Loftus, David C. Rubin, and John T. Wixted
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195310443
- eISBN:
- 9780199865321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310443.003.0015
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Systems
This part presents four chapters on the concept of forgetting. The first chapter analyzes the term “forgetting”. The second discusses the impact of misinformation on the ability to remember previous ...
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This part presents four chapters on the concept of forgetting. The first chapter analyzes the term “forgetting”. The second discusses the impact of misinformation on the ability to remember previous event details. The third considers whether forgetting is a useful concept in the science of memory. It argues that it is not an especially useful in terms of what it denotes, but that what it connotes needs to be kept. The fourth presents a synthesis of the chapters in this part.Less
This part presents four chapters on the concept of forgetting. The first chapter analyzes the term “forgetting”. The second discusses the impact of misinformation on the ability to remember previous event details. The third considers whether forgetting is a useful concept in the science of memory. It argues that it is not an especially useful in terms of what it denotes, but that what it connotes needs to be kept. The fourth presents a synthesis of the chapters in this part.
Joseph M. Hassett
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199582907
- eISBN:
- 9780191723216
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582907.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Chapter 1 shows that some of the best poems in Yeats's first great collection, The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), were written to Olivia Shakespear, his first lover, and reflect his association of ...
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Chapter 1 shows that some of the best poems in Yeats's first great collection, The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), were written to Olivia Shakespear, his first lover, and reflect his association of Shakespear with the White Goddess. For example, ‘He Remembers Forgotten Beauty,’ read in light of Yeats's discussion of the moon as symbol in his essays on Shelley and Spenser, suggests that when the poet hears ‘White Beauty sighing too’ in the sighs of his lover, he is hearing the loveliness of the White Goddess ‘[t]hat has long faded from the world’. However, Shakespear did not conform to the rubric of the Muse as a stern mistress who cannot be possessed. Yeats too readily won her, and thus lost her as Muse. Rather than exhibiting the unattainability that caused Petrarch to speak of Laura as his ‘beloved enemy,’ Shakespear was, as Yeats said in Memoirs, ‘too near my soul, too salutary and wholesome to my inmost being.’ The book shows that, although Yeats forsook Shakepear to pursue other Muses, she dominates his beautiful encomium to ‘Three women that have wrought/What joy is in my days.’ After a long hiatus, she returned to Yeats's poetry as the subject of his great celebration of love as friendship, ‘After Long Silence.’Less
Chapter 1 shows that some of the best poems in Yeats's first great collection, The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), were written to Olivia Shakespear, his first lover, and reflect his association of Shakespear with the White Goddess. For example, ‘He Remembers Forgotten Beauty,’ read in light of Yeats's discussion of the moon as symbol in his essays on Shelley and Spenser, suggests that when the poet hears ‘White Beauty sighing too’ in the sighs of his lover, he is hearing the loveliness of the White Goddess ‘[t]hat has long faded from the world’. However, Shakespear did not conform to the rubric of the Muse as a stern mistress who cannot be possessed. Yeats too readily won her, and thus lost her as Muse. Rather than exhibiting the unattainability that caused Petrarch to speak of Laura as his ‘beloved enemy,’ Shakespear was, as Yeats said in Memoirs, ‘too near my soul, too salutary and wholesome to my inmost being.’ The book shows that, although Yeats forsook Shakepear to pursue other Muses, she dominates his beautiful encomium to ‘Three women that have wrought/What joy is in my days.’ After a long hiatus, she returned to Yeats's poetry as the subject of his great celebration of love as friendship, ‘After Long Silence.’
William Hirst, Alin Coman, and Charles B. Stone
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199920754
- eISBN:
- 9780199950133
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199920754.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Forensic Psychology
Although psychology has intensely studied both eyewitness testimony and jury decision-making, there has only been minimal research on the efforts jury members make during deliberation to collectively ...
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Although psychology has intensely studied both eyewitness testimony and jury decision-making, there has only been minimal research on the efforts jury members make during deliberation to collectively and collaboratively remember the testimony they heard during a trial. This chapter reviews the Court’s instructions to juries about the reliability of their memories and the burgeoning laboratory-based literature on collaborative remembering and the ways collaborative efforts shape subsequent memory, particularly, the collective memory of a jury. Although this research does not specifically examine the memories emerging from jury deliberation, it is suggestive. While the Courts urge jurors to trust their collective memories over their notes or written transcripts, the laboratory-based research indicates that group dynamics during conversational interactions may not only lead to selective remembering, but may substantially alter what jurors remember and forget about a trial. The collective memories of juries may not be a reliable recollection of courtroom testimony.Less
Although psychology has intensely studied both eyewitness testimony and jury decision-making, there has only been minimal research on the efforts jury members make during deliberation to collectively and collaboratively remember the testimony they heard during a trial. This chapter reviews the Court’s instructions to juries about the reliability of their memories and the burgeoning laboratory-based literature on collaborative remembering and the ways collaborative efforts shape subsequent memory, particularly, the collective memory of a jury. Although this research does not specifically examine the memories emerging from jury deliberation, it is suggestive. While the Courts urge jurors to trust their collective memories over their notes or written transcripts, the laboratory-based research indicates that group dynamics during conversational interactions may not only lead to selective remembering, but may substantially alter what jurors remember and forget about a trial. The collective memories of juries may not be a reliable recollection of courtroom testimony.
Carnley Peter
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198267560
- eISBN:
- 9780191683299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267560.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter focuses on the memory of Jesus Christ and the concept of the remembered Christ. In it, Jesus as the man who died on the cross is sketched and illustrated through the memory that is ...
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This chapter focuses on the memory of Jesus Christ and the concept of the remembered Christ. In it, Jesus as the man who died on the cross is sketched and illustrated through the memory that is prevailing within the Christian Church, wherein His continuing and living presence is reiterated and strengthened. The chapter probes into the efforts of the Church to remember Christ in order to propagate and spread the recognition and identification of Jesus as a Spirit that remains present and alive, and as a raised Christ that exists and sits at the right hand of the Father.Less
This chapter focuses on the memory of Jesus Christ and the concept of the remembered Christ. In it, Jesus as the man who died on the cross is sketched and illustrated through the memory that is prevailing within the Christian Church, wherein His continuing and living presence is reiterated and strengthened. The chapter probes into the efforts of the Church to remember Christ in order to propagate and spread the recognition and identification of Jesus as a Spirit that remains present and alive, and as a raised Christ that exists and sits at the right hand of the Father.
Carnley Peter
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198267560
- eISBN:
- 9780191683299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267560.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter discusses the transferring of the image of Christ within the Christian community by remembering and acknowledging His living presence. At its core is the faith and remembrance of Jesus ...
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This chapter discusses the transferring of the image of Christ within the Christian community by remembering and acknowledging His living presence. At its core is the faith and remembrance of Jesus not only as a memory, but as Christus praesens. In the chapter the concepts of remembering Jesus and knowing Christ are defined and distinguished. Although both refer to knowledge of Christ, the two are nonetheless different and distinct. The Jesus who is remembered is the Jesus as he was in the days of His flesh, from birth to death on the cross. This knowledge is a kind of knowledge by description rather than by acquaintance. Knowing Jesus, on the other hand, refers to the raised Christ, who is known by acquaintance in the present. It is the Spirit of Jesus in the here and now with which faith is identified and thus known.Less
This chapter discusses the transferring of the image of Christ within the Christian community by remembering and acknowledging His living presence. At its core is the faith and remembrance of Jesus not only as a memory, but as Christus praesens. In the chapter the concepts of remembering Jesus and knowing Christ are defined and distinguished. Although both refer to knowledge of Christ, the two are nonetheless different and distinct. The Jesus who is remembered is the Jesus as he was in the days of His flesh, from birth to death on the cross. This knowledge is a kind of knowledge by description rather than by acquaintance. Knowing Jesus, on the other hand, refers to the raised Christ, who is known by acquaintance in the present. It is the Spirit of Jesus in the here and now with which faith is identified and thus known.
J. Kevin O’Regan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199775224
- eISBN:
- 9780199919031
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199775224.003.0025
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Sensory and Motor Systems
This chapter presents a new view of seeing. It begins with a discussion of vision and tactile perception, and then compares the experience of seeing with the experience of remembering. It argues that ...
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This chapter presents a new view of seeing. It begins with a discussion of vision and tactile perception, and then compares the experience of seeing with the experience of remembering. It argues that seeing seems more real to us than remembering or imagining because the activity of seeing involves four properties that provide it with its particular perceptual “presence”: richness, bodiliness, partial insubordinateness, and grabbiness.Less
This chapter presents a new view of seeing. It begins with a discussion of vision and tactile perception, and then compares the experience of seeing with the experience of remembering. It argues that seeing seems more real to us than remembering or imagining because the activity of seeing involves four properties that provide it with its particular perceptual “presence”: richness, bodiliness, partial insubordinateness, and grabbiness.
Kathleen B. McDermott, Karl K. Szpunar, and Kathleen M. Arnold
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195395518
- eISBN:
- 9780199897230
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0034
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
This chapter takes a novel approach and presents a personal story of how ideas formed about episodic future thought evolved over time and how personal ideas regarding this topic have come to fit in ...
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This chapter takes a novel approach and presents a personal story of how ideas formed about episodic future thought evolved over time and how personal ideas regarding this topic have come to fit in with the larger picture that has developed around this rapidly emerging line of research. The organization of the chapter is as follows. First, it considers the theoretical motivation behind the study of episodic future thought. It next considers initial attempts to identify neural correlates of episodic future thought and how they compare to those underlying retrieval of episodes from one's past. After considering some of the initial results, which demonstrate a high level of similarity in the neural substrates of autobiographical remembering and episodic future thinking, it discusses a few early theoretical accounts of this state of affairs. Most accounts center on the basic conclusion that episodic future thought is accomplished by drawing upon memory and recombining elements of these memories into novel (future-oriented) scenarios. The chapter then considers some recent behavioral research that grew out of this conceptualization. Finally, it discusses a neuroimaging study designed to test directly the hypothesis that memory for previously experienced contextual settings (e.g., places) is an important component in understanding the similarities between remembering and episodic future thought.Less
This chapter takes a novel approach and presents a personal story of how ideas formed about episodic future thought evolved over time and how personal ideas regarding this topic have come to fit in with the larger picture that has developed around this rapidly emerging line of research. The organization of the chapter is as follows. First, it considers the theoretical motivation behind the study of episodic future thought. It next considers initial attempts to identify neural correlates of episodic future thought and how they compare to those underlying retrieval of episodes from one's past. After considering some of the initial results, which demonstrate a high level of similarity in the neural substrates of autobiographical remembering and episodic future thinking, it discusses a few early theoretical accounts of this state of affairs. Most accounts center on the basic conclusion that episodic future thought is accomplished by drawing upon memory and recombining elements of these memories into novel (future-oriented) scenarios. The chapter then considers some recent behavioral research that grew out of this conceptualization. Finally, it discusses a neuroimaging study designed to test directly the hypothesis that memory for previously experienced contextual settings (e.g., places) is an important component in understanding the similarities between remembering and episodic future thought.
Michelle L. Meade, Celia B. Harris, Penny Van Bergen, John Sutton, and Amanda J. Barnier (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198737865
- eISBN:
- 9780191820366
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198737865.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Much information in our lives is remembered in a social context, as we often reminisce about shared experiences with others, and more generally remember in the social context of our communities and ...
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Much information in our lives is remembered in a social context, as we often reminisce about shared experiences with others, and more generally remember in the social context of our communities and our cultures. Memory researchers across disciplines and subdisciplines are actively exploring collaborative remembering. However, despite this common interest and growing research area, there is currently relatively little crosstalk between perspectives. This is at least partly due to differences in the assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions that guide different approaches, and which can make it difficult to synthesize and compare methods and findings. The primary purpose of this book is to feature outstanding recent work on collaborative remembering across several fields and subfields (including developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, discourse processing, philosophy, neuropsychology, design, and media studies), to highlight the points of overlap and contrast, and to initiate conversations and debate both within and across the various perspectives. Toward that end, we present a comprehensive and field-defining set of chapters that illustrate the many different perspectives of collaborative memory research, and demonstrate the nuance and complexity of collaborative remembering within and across research traditions.Less
Much information in our lives is remembered in a social context, as we often reminisce about shared experiences with others, and more generally remember in the social context of our communities and our cultures. Memory researchers across disciplines and subdisciplines are actively exploring collaborative remembering. However, despite this common interest and growing research area, there is currently relatively little crosstalk between perspectives. This is at least partly due to differences in the assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions that guide different approaches, and which can make it difficult to synthesize and compare methods and findings. The primary purpose of this book is to feature outstanding recent work on collaborative remembering across several fields and subfields (including developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, discourse processing, philosophy, neuropsychology, design, and media studies), to highlight the points of overlap and contrast, and to initiate conversations and debate both within and across the various perspectives. Toward that end, we present a comprehensive and field-defining set of chapters that illustrate the many different perspectives of collaborative memory research, and demonstrate the nuance and complexity of collaborative remembering within and across research traditions.
Micah Salkind
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190698416
- eISBN:
- 9780190698454
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190698416.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This interdisciplinary study historicizes house music, the rhythmically focused electronic dance sound born in the post-industrial maroon spaces of Chicago’s queer, black, and Latino social dancers. ...
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This interdisciplinary study historicizes house music, the rhythmically focused electronic dance sound born in the post-industrial maroon spaces of Chicago’s queer, black, and Latino social dancers. Working from oral history interviews, archival research, and performance ethnography, it argues that the remediation and adaptation of house by multiple and overlapping crossover communities in its first decade shaped the ways that contemporary Chicago house music producers, DJs, dancers, and promoters re-remember and re-animate house as an archive indexing experiences of queer of color congregation. Engaging with and extending the fields of African American studies, urban studies, gender and sexuality studies, dance studies, performance studies, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and media studies, Do You Remember House? considers house music culture’s liberatory potential in relation to its flexible repertoire in motion, an ever-expanding archive of danceable sounds.Less
This interdisciplinary study historicizes house music, the rhythmically focused electronic dance sound born in the post-industrial maroon spaces of Chicago’s queer, black, and Latino social dancers. Working from oral history interviews, archival research, and performance ethnography, it argues that the remediation and adaptation of house by multiple and overlapping crossover communities in its first decade shaped the ways that contemporary Chicago house music producers, DJs, dancers, and promoters re-remember and re-animate house as an archive indexing experiences of queer of color congregation. Engaging with and extending the fields of African American studies, urban studies, gender and sexuality studies, dance studies, performance studies, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and media studies, Do You Remember House? considers house music culture’s liberatory potential in relation to its flexible repertoire in motion, an ever-expanding archive of danceable sounds.
