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Insights on Memory from Psychology and Arts

The document discusses memory from the perspectives of psychology, neuroscience, and the arts. It references talks and articles about the differences between experiencing and remembering selves, how memory can distort experiences, and implications of how memories are created and recalled. Key topics covered include two models of memory, long and short term memory types, the creative and recreated nature of memories, and the reliability of eyewitness testimony and historical claims based on memories.

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Insights on Memory from Psychology and Arts

The document discusses memory from the perspectives of psychology, neuroscience, and the arts. It references talks and articles about the differences between experiencing and remembering selves, how memory can distort experiences, and implications of how memories are created and recalled. Key topics covered include two models of memory, long and short term memory types, the creative and recreated nature of memories, and the reliability of eyewitness testimony and historical claims based on memories.

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What can we learn about Memory from Psychology (HS) and Neuroscience (NS) and

Arts?

Daniel Kahnemann

Watch first 15 minutes of his TED talk - https://youtu.be/XgRlrBl-7Yg

1 Write briefly on the distinction between the ‘experiencing self’ and the ‘remembering
self’.

2 How does the ‘remembering self’ distort the way we experience the world?

3 What does Kahnemann suggest about the link between memory and self-identity?

4 If an artist (novelist, painter etc) is expressing ideas based on memories (both theirs and
those of others) how does this insight into the 2 selves affect our ability to rely on their
testimony? Does it matter? What about the reliability of eye-witnesses for claims in History?

The Ostby sisters

Read this article - https://wWhat ww.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/philisophically-


speak-we-can-never-fully-trust-our-memory-ylva-hilde-ostby-adventure-in-memory

The Ostby sisters - a psychologist and an artist - make interesting observations about memory.

What do they say about -

1 2 models for thinking about memory?

2 Long term explicit memory vs short term implicit memory?

Long term memory divided into ‘episodic’ and ‘semantic’ types?

3 Implications of memory being something created and then recreated?

4 Three stages by which memories are created and recalled?

5 Traumatic memories and Freud’s theory of repressed memory?

6 In terms of evolutionary advantage, memory can be seen as source of imagination?

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