
Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation
Analogous Processes on Different Levels
MIT Press
Published on 3. August 2021
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Paperback/Softback
346 pages
978-0-262-54400-9 (ISBN)
Description
An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
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9 FIGURES
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
502 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54400-9 (9780262544009)
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Thomas J. Anastasio | Kristen Ann Ehrenberger | Patrick Watson
Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation
Analogous Processes on Different Levels
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Thomas J. Anastasio is Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kristen Ann Ehrenberger is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Patrick Watson is a Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Wenyi Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Content
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 1
I Types of Memory 15
2 Individual Memory and Forgetting 17
3 Defining Collective Memory 41
4 Three-in-One Model of Memory Consolidation 61
II The Memory Consolidation Process 81
5 Buffering and Attention 83
6 Selection and Relationality 105
7 Generalization and Specialization 127
8 Influence of the Consolidating Entity 161
III Disruption of Consolidation 179
9 Collective Retrograde Amnesia 181
10 Persistence of Consolidated Collective Memory 203
11 Loss of Unconsolidated Collective Memory 227
12 Conclusions 245
References 267
Index 299
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 1
I Types of Memory 15
2 Individual Memory and Forgetting 17
3 Defining Collective Memory 41
4 Three-in-One Model of Memory Consolidation 61
II The Memory Consolidation Process 81
5 Buffering and Attention 83
6 Selection and Relationality 105
7 Generalization and Specialization 127
8 Influence of the Consolidating Entity 161
III Disruption of Consolidation 179
9 Collective Retrograde Amnesia 181
10 Persistence of Consolidated Collective Memory 203
11 Loss of Unconsolidated Collective Memory 227
12 Conclusions 245
References 267
Index 299