Individual and collective memory consolidation [electronic resource] : analogous processes on different levels / Thomas J. Anastasio [and others].
An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia. We form individual memories by a process known as consolidation: the conversion of immediate and fleeting bits of information into a stable and accessible representati...
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MIT Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Individual memory and forgetting
- Defining collective memory
- Three-in-one model of memory consolidation
- Buffering and attention
- Selection and relationality
- Generalization and specialization
- Influence of the consolidating entity
- Collective retrograde amnesia
- Persistence of consolidated collective memory
- Loss of unconsolidated collective memory
- Conclusions.