ArticleNature human behaviour2020
Collective memory shapes the organization of individual memories in the medial prefrontal cortex.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Etude d'imagerie par resonance magnetique fonctionnelle chez le sujet sain des relations entre memoire collective et individuelle
Etude d'imagerie par resonance magnetique fonctionnelle chez le sujet sain des relations entre memoire collective et individuelle
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- Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Collective memory: between individual systems of consciousness and social systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022Review
- Geometric models reveal behavioural and neural signatures of transforming experiences into memories.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
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- Decoding individual identity from brain activity elicited in imagining common experiences.Nature communications · 2020Article
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Abstract
It has long been hypothesized that individual recollection fits collective memory. To look for a collective schema, we analysed the content of 30 years of media coverage of World War II on French national television. We recorded human brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging as participants recalled World War II displays at the Caen Memorial Museum following an initial tour. We focused on the medial prefrontal cortex, a key region for social cognition and memory schemas. The organization of individual memories captured using the distribution of the functional magnetic resonance imaging signal in the dorsal part of the medial prefrontal cortex was more accurately predicted by the structure of the collective schema than by various control models of contextual or semantic memory. Collective memory, which exists outside and beyond individuals, can also organize individual memories and constitutes a common mental model that connects people's memories across time and space.
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