Memories liberate the past

Memories of Christmas past.

Past-life Memories: a Review

t-life ribe detai ed to and n review e ecent A K Researchers have studied young children’s reports of pas emories for the last 45 years. The children usually desc ecent, ordinary life, and many of them have given enough o that one particular deceased individual has been identifi atch the children’s statements. These cases occur worldwide, lthough they are easiest to find in cultures with a beli...

Dynamic memories of the collective past

In this paper, I first retrace some aspects of a dynamic theory of humans in society, and then highlight what appear to me as major contributions of two papers of this special issue. This leads me to highlight a series of questions, which I address through two other consonant studies on remembering, the work of Harald Welzer and his team on the memory of WWII in three generations in German fami...

Technologies of seeing the past: the Curzon memories App

This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s new Heritage Lottery Funded exhibition, enabling visitors to gain further insight into the building, projection equipment and the history of cinema ...

The unpredictable past: spontaneous autobiographical memories outnumber autobiographical memories retrieved strategically.

Involuntary autobiographical memories are spontaneously arising memories of personal events, whereas voluntary memories are retrieved strategically. Voluntary remembering has been studied in numerous experiments while involuntary remembering has been largely ignored. It is generally assumed that voluntary recall is the standard way of remembering, whereas involuntary recall is the exception. Ho...