This course explores the rhetoric of public and personal memory with particular attention paid to violent and traumatic memories. The course will be oriented around three distinct nodes: memory as ...

We all have memories, be it as individuals or as nations. To remember is to be human. But memory has the power to both unite and divide. Today’s struggle in the Middle East is a modern-day exercise in ...

Autobiographical Memory Autobiographical memory is a broad category of memories related to a person’s own life. This complex body of information can range from basic details about one’s past to vivid ...

Myth 1: Memory is too flawed and impermanent to be trustworthy. Fact: Extensive research supports the accuracy and dependability of long-term memories—for both personal experiences and experimental ...

Decent memory is a matter of livelihood, of independence, most of all of identity. Human memory is the ghost in the neural machine, a widely distributed, continually changing, multidimensional ...

Caitlin Flanagan, whose writing in The Atlantic cuts to the heart of modern life’s most charged topics, has a way of expressing truths that feel both deeply personal and universal. She explores her ...

A shared set of systems in the brain may play an important role in controlling the retrieval of facts and personal memories utilized in everyday life, new research shows. Scientists say their findings ...