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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"individual memory"”.
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[ME]morial
… an archetypal relationship between collective memory and a multitude of traditional memorials, "[ME]morial" presents a new concept in memorial architecture based on the reinterpretation of Freud's and Bergson's ideas of memory. [ME]morial emphasizes a new relationship between individual memory …
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Mapping and Memory in Banja Luka
… in this thesis: cartographic reconstructions and memory maps. The reconstructions record the Banja Luka that never made it into the cartographic history due to the turbulent political history of the city. Of the memory maps, there are also two types. There are personal and individual memory maps …
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Absent Presence: an exploration of memory and family through printmaking
… and linguistic metaphors help to conceptualise memory by reducing its physiological and philosophical complexities to a degree that allows its processes to be easily understood. Two commonly used metaphors are ‘memory as an imprint' and ‘memory as a photograph'. However, these metaphors ignore …
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The Memory of the First World War at its Centenary in Britain: A Study of War Memory at National, Local and Individual Levels
… of between centenary events and cultural memory of the war. Since the Armistice in 1918, the memory of the First World War has been reshaped throughout the past century and the pity of war narrative, as told by poets, of trench warfare that amassed in thousands dead, is the dominant …
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Drifting in the Dead Zone in Cyprus: the mediation of memory through expanded life writing
… of multiple and contested collective memory-narratives. In order to explore the nature of individual and collective memory the thesis challenges a series of physical and conceptual border zones: the disciplinary and discursive boundaries between poetry and philosophy; the border …
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Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry
… the term ecopoetics focuses on the ways in which individual memory, personal experience, ideology, and the limitations of the senses shape experience and, just as importantly, on how new forms and experimentation with language can work to expose the agential power of the material and nonmaterial …
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Memory and postmemory in the writing of North American writers of Lithuanian descent /
… and their descendants. All five embarked on postmemory rite of return journeys to Lithuania after Lituania’s independence from the Soviet Union, seeking answers about family narratives. These memoirs function both as memory and postmemory narratives. In each of the memoirs, the writers explore …
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Atmintis ir postatmintis Šiaurės Amerikos lietuvių kilmės rašytojų literatūroje /
… and their descendants. All five embarked on postmemory rite of return journeys to Lithuania after Lituania’s independence from the Soviet Union, seeking answers about family narratives. These memoirs function both as memory and postmemory narratives. In each of the memoirs, the writers explore …
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Efficient Performance Evaluation for Highly Multi-threaded Graphics Processors
… events, and associate the overall effect of individual events and inefficiencies to the operations in the application source code. The state-of-the-art performance counters in highly multithreaded graphic processors currently do not provide this level of precision. Although fine-grained …
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The neural and psychophysical bases of memorability
Every person has a unique set of individual experiences that make up their memories. Yet surprisingly, recent work has shown that people tend to remember and forget the same images. This is because these images differ in their memorability - a predictive value of whether an image is likely to be …
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Interpreting Ambiguity in Sexual Dating Encounters: Social Information Processing Differences in Men and Women
… Information Processing Theory (SIP) suggests individuals follow successive cognitive stages in determining how to respond to social stimuli. These stages are influenced by biological predisposition, environment, and learning history. The SIP model involves 6 stages: encoding of cues, …
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Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
… historicising space and place, and fusing (individual) memory and (collective) history. Such texts, hybrid narratives between histories and stories of Denmark (or Danmarkshistorier), implicate a Danish national model reader who is alive both to the homogenising contemporary discourse of …
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Ukrainian Ostarbeiters in Canada: Individual and Collective Remembering
… it also explores the nature of the collective memory about Ostarbeiters in the Canadian context. Finally, based on the transcripts of 32 available interviews, the study investigates how former forced labourers make sense of their past and how they present their life experiences. By describing …
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State-trace analysis of associative recognition: comparing single-process and dual-process models.
… associative recognition. Like recognition memory for individual items, associative recognition is currently understood through two different classes of model. The first is the single-process model class which holds that associative recognition decisions are based on a continuum of …
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Neural processes underpinning episodic memory
Episodic memory is the memory for our personal past experiences. Although numerous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies investigating its neural basis have revealed a consistent and distributed network of associated brain regions, surprisingly little is known about the contributions …
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Perjury and Memory in the English Law Courts, 1660–1688
This thesis explores the relationships between memory and witness perjury, or lying under oath, in the law courts of later seventeenth-century England. Although there has been excellent work on perjury in early modern England, this work is limited for the later seventeenth century, and does not …
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The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel
… and real, thereby showing that the images of individual memory are inextricably intertwined with and shaped by collective memory. Ultimately, the reconstruction of the past as and through film(s) conquers trauma and endows the Partition of India as a historic experience of brutal contingency …