Autobiography, autofiction, representation, interrogation, remembering and forgetting

Remembering and Forgetting

REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING Do you remember your first day in the school? On what day did you go to the market last week? Can you name your friends? In our everyday life almost all activities in one or the other way deal with memory. Loss of memory means loss of one's self. Learning will make no sense if it is not retained by the person. It is only through the capacity of memory that we are able...

Remembering and forgetting: directed forgetting effect in obsessive-compulsive disorder

It has been reported that episodic memory seems to be impaired in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) because the patients repeat a specific checking behavior, but it is still unknown if OCD patients show memory impairments associated with their unique symptoms or not. To study episodic memory in OCD patients, we examined the directed forgetting effect. Patients with OCD and healt...

Remembering Another Aspect of Forgetting

Although forgetting is most often thought of in terms of declines in performance (response loss or impairment), another class of memory phenomena, the forgetting of stimulus attributes, has begun to attract experimental attention. In non-human animals, the loss of memory for stimulus features is reflected in the flattening of stimulus generalization gradients as well as in the attenuation of th...

Remembering and Forgetting: Narrative as Cultural Memory

This paper has two objectives: one is to explore the dialectics of remembering and forgetting, an issue traditionally neglected in psychological memory research; the other is to question the widespread dichotomy of individual and social memory. To do so, a cultural-historical perspective is outlined that allows us to conceive of individual memory as an inextricable part of an overarching cultur...

The Work of Forgetting and Remembering Places