Within a week of the attack of September 11, 2001, a consortium of researchers from across the United States distributed a survey asking about the circumstances in which respondents learned of the attack (their flashbulb memories) and the facts about the attack itself (their event memories). Follow-up surveys were distributed 11, 25, and 119 months after the attack. The study, therefore, examin...

A collective memory is a representation of the past that is shared by members of a group. We investigated similarities and differences in the collective memories of younger and older adults for three major wars in U.S. history (the Civil War, World War II, and the Iraq War). Both groups were alive during the recent Iraq War, but only the older subjects were alive during World War II, and both g...

Traditional life in Indonesia is significantly related to spoken culture from the older generation young age. This condition unconsciously shows a risk of void space when there disconnected generation. Only small number written documentation and drawings exist for Vernacular Architecture or Nusantara. Tazo one several villages Riung district, Flores island, Nusa Tenggara Timur province, Indones...

Versión escrita de una conferencia realizada en el marco del Proyecto Archives in Transition: Collective Memories and Subaltern Uses financiado por European Union’s Horizon 2020 Program‒Marie Sklodowska Curie, Research Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE).

Our species stands before the unprecedented challenge to fundamentally change its ways in order to avoid the potential catastrophe that would make our world inhabitable and the dangerous tensions that inevitably arise when food, energy and other resources become scarce. This paper raises the question what computer science can contribute to help foster this change. It focuses on community memori...

This article explores the ways in which stories serve a structuring function in three Portuguese American memoirs. The article also examines the use of stories as a way to weave together the gap between memory and inherited memory (Hirsch, 2012), arguing that the stories produce texts that carefully choreograph between inherited family stories and inherited cultural memories, creating a layerin...

This study builds on the assumption that large-scale social phenomena emerge out of the interaction between individual cognitive mechanisms and social dynamics. Within this framework, we empirically investigated the propagation of memory effects (retrieval induced forgetting and practice effects) through sequences of social interactions. We found that the influence a public figure has on an ind...