Previous research has shown that ideas which violate our expectations, such as schema-inconsistent concepts, enjoy privileged status in terms of memorability. In our study, memory for concepts that violate cultural (cultural schema-level) expectations (e.g., "illiterate teacher", "wooden bottle", or "thorny grass") versus domain-level (ontological) expectations (e.g., "speaking cat", "jumping m...

The study addresses cultural and person-level factors contributing to emerging adult's use of memory to serve adaptive functions. The focus is on three functions: self-continuity, social-bonding and directing-behaviour. Taiwanese (N = 85, 52 women) and American (N = 95, 51 women) emerging adults completed the Thinking about Life Experiences scale, and measures of trait personality, self-concept...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

This work is part of the larger research conducted in the scientific and disciplinary Research Unit, named Design for Cultural Heritage (DeCH), now Design & Culture, in the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano. It has been conducted in continuity with the research project PRIN 2010/12 “The design of cultural heritage through history, memory and knowledge: the immaterial, the virtual, the ...

This paper presents the semantic portal “CULTURESAMPO—Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web”1 [1, 2]. The portal provides memory organizations and other cultural content publishers with a national, shared semantic publication channel for heterogenous cultural contents. The content comes from over ten organizations and is annotated using various ontologies of the FinnONTO infrastructure [3]. For t...

In this short position paper, we present the idea concerning the utility and makeup of an application to collect cultural heritage experiences. We take a short look at what has been done in this area both from a lifelong cultural heritage perspective and that of timelines and memory logging visualization. The features for such an application and possible visualizations are discussed. In additio...

City Communication Network: Sherry Simon’s Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory The article reviews seminal book (Routledge, 2012) recently rendered into Polish. Canadian scholar combines urban studies with comparative literature, translation, translator memory to provide insight linguistic cultural interactions the “dual cities” Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona Montreal. An ...