Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...

The Mandela Effect is a type of false memory that occurs when many different people incorrectly remember the same thing. It refers to a widespread false memory that Nelson Mandela died in prison in ...

Memory refers to a process by which your brain takes in information, stores that information, and retrieves it later. You have three kinds of memory: Implicit memory is a type of long-term memory ...

A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories. By Jonathan Kandell Pierre Nora, a French scholar whose ideas ...

Vol. 45, No. 2, China in World War II, 1937–1945: Experience, Memory, and Legacy (MARCH 2011), pp. 399-429 (31 pages) This paper examines the role that veterans played in the construction of ...

Every Monday for more than 30 years, Mychal Wilmes starts to think about what will become his next column. “Then it kind of mulls around in my head,” Wilmes said recently over coffee at a cafe in ...