Recorded music is vital to the construction of personal and collective cultural memory. My examination of the interrelation between personal and collective memories of popular music assumes both that human memory is simultaneously embodied, enabled, and embedded, and that (re)collective experiences are constructed through narratives. Analysis of an online set of narrative responses to a nationa...

This paper explores how the concept of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is constructed through Spanish media and documentary films and how it is represented. The article analyses three documentary films and the cultural and social contexts in and from which they emerged: Solé ́s Bucarest: la memòria perduda [Bucharest: Memory Lost] (2007), Bosch ́s Bicicleta, cullera, poma [Bicycle, Spoon, Apple] (2010) ...

This article seeks to contribute to contemporary discussions on the workings of culturalmemory and examines in particular theway inwhich literary texts can function as a social framework for memory.Through a detailed study of the genesis, composition, and long-term reception of Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian (1982 [1818]), I argue that literary texts play a variety of roles in the forma...

In the past decade, cultural differences in perceptual judgment and memory have been observed: Westerners attend more to focal objects, whereas East Asians attend more to contextual information. However, the underlying mechanisms for the apparent differences in cognitive processing styles have not been known. In the present study, we examined the possibility that the cultural differences arise ...

This article examines historical transformations of Japanese collective memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by utilizing a theoretical framework that combines a model of reiterated problem solving and a theory of cultural trauma. I illustrate how the event of the nuclear fallout in March 1954 allowed actors to consolidate previously fragmented commemorative practices into a master frame t...

The aim of this review is to highlight an emerging field: the neuroscience of culture. This new field links cross-cultural psychology with cognitive neuroscience across fundamental domains of cognitive and social psychology. We present a summary of studies on emotion, perspective-taking, memory, object perception, attention, language, and the self, showing cultural differences in behavior as we...

Learning and memory are fundamental higher brain functions that allow the individual to adapt to the environment, to build up his own history as a unique creature, to widen the personal cultural background and, ultimately, the population culture. In this review, we will briefly examine the cellular and molecular mechanisms that contribute to the various forms of memory that include short- and l...

In May 1913 a young British psychologist named Frederic Bartlett participated in a series of experiments on visual perception in the newly opened Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at Cambridge University. “I was fascinated,” he wrote, “by the variety of interpretations which different people then achieved, all of which they said they ‘saw,’ of the same diagrams and pictures” shown to them b...