Psychology of Memory

The dichotomy between ‘truth’ and ‘falsity’ in relation to memory is difficult to clearly sustain. The veridicality of memory is typically established by drawing on the local, normative procedures that operate in a given setting (e.g. legal, clinical, social). Since all procedures are strictly relative, all memories are technically either ‘relatively falsified’ or ‘relatively as-yet-unfalsified’. False memory studies claim to be able explain the production of false memories, but do not offer criterion to effectively differentiate populations of so-called ‘true’ and ‘false’ victims. The narrative of the discovery of the ‘false memories’ themselves is inconsistent and demonstrates a significant level of imagination inflation and suggestibility to dominant narratives in post-war psychology. In attending to the setting specificity of memory, researchers may wish to consider how their work impacts on the experience–ecologies to which they contribute.

La duplication du carré par un esclave que Socrate interroge prouve-t-elle comme le pense Platon que la connaissance mathématique est réminiscence? Mais la réminiscence elle-même suppose-t-elle une contemplation de l'intelligible? Secondé d'une Ariane sagittale, Deleuze est interrogé sur ces questions.

Not all mental images are suitable to be stored easily; I say “stored easily” and not simply “memorized”, since all mental images can be memorized, even if some of them with difficulty. As we have seen in a previous article the first characteristic of the mnemonic images is that they must be well defined. And we should not confuse the concept of the definition of the images with that of the resolution of the photographs. The one is not the other's metaphor. Our imagination is not a camera. Mnemonic images must have certain characteristics, the main of which we will examine in this article: emotion, exaggeration, eccentricity, movement; they should also be parameterisable and configurable.

The dichotomy between 'truth' and 'falsity' in relation to memory is difficult to clearly sustain. The veridicality of memory is typically established by drawing on the local, normative procedures that operate in a given setting (e.g. legal, clinical, social). Since all procedures are strictly relative, all memories are technically either 'relatively falsified' or 'relatively as-yet-unfalsified'. False Memory Studies claim to be able explain the production of false memories, but do not offer criterion to effectively differentiate populations of so-called 'true' and 'false' victims. The narrative of the discovery of the 'false memories' themselves is inconsistent and demonstrates a significant level of imagination inflation and suggestibility to dominant narratives in postwar Psychology. In attending to the setting-specificity of memory, researchers may wish to consider how their work impacts on the experience-ecologies to which they contribute

The dichotomy between ‘truth’ and ‘falsity’ in relation to memory is difficult to clearly sustain. The veridicality of memory is typically established by drawing on the local, normative procedures that operate in a given setting (e.g. legal, clinical, social). Since all procedures are strictly relative, all memories are technically either ‘relatively falsified’ or ‘relatively as-yet-unfalsified’. False memory studies claim to be able explain the production of false memories, but do not offer criterion to effectively differentiate populations of so-called ‘true’ and ‘false’ victims. The narrative of the discovery of the ‘false memories’ themselves is inconsistent and demonstrates a significant level of imagination inflation and suggestibility to dominant narratives in post-war psychology. In attending to the setting specificity of memory, researchers may wish to consider how their work impacts on the experience–ecologies to which they contribute.

Le livre de Ricoeur sur la mémoire, l'histoire et l'oubli appelle d'abord un éclaircissement du concept de mémoire dans son rapport au temps et à l'être. La primauté du présent au sens de saint Augustin est battue en brèche par Bergson et Wittgenstein en deux discussions qui culminent dans la thèse wittgensteinienne de la mémoire comme source du temps.

In this article, I consider the concept of memory simply as a set of information that must be managed for a determined and/or indeterminate period of time. The memory must not be overly complex, but should be integrated with other memories that are to it ‘contiguous’ by likeness, or by meaning, or by accident. It is the overall pattern of all these details that then, to the recovery of any of them, will pull back the full picture. What follows should be regarded also in relation to the rote repetition, as a list of accounts useful to turn a monotonous repetition of notions gradually into an active process of comprehension.