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Luce Program in
Individual and Collective
Memory
Washington University in St. Louis
Events
Workshops,
seminars,
colloquia
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Workshop
Models of
cultural transmission
Jan 15-17, 2006, Washington
University in St. Louis.
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Cultural
transmission (i.e. how
people acquire cultural knowledge,
store it in memory, and communicate it to cultural peers and novices)
implies (1) straightforward recall of information provided by cultural
elders, but also (2) the activation of cognitive dispositions leading
to particular kinds of representations. To what extent can we explain
cultural variance in terms of these processes? We will discuss formal
models of cultural inheritance and domain-specific cultural
dispositions that result from evolution.
Participants:
Rob Boyd (UCLA),
Harvey Whitehouse (Belfast), Joe Henrich (Emory), Debra Lieberman (U
Hawaii), Ara Norenzayan (UBC), Stephen
Shennan (UCLondon), Larry Hirschfeld (UMichigan), Dan Fessler (UCLA),
Carlo Severi (EHESS Paris), Rob Kurzban (Penn), Jim Wertsch (WU),
Pascal Boyer (WU).
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Workshop
Individual
and Collective Memory: Conceptual Foundations
May
12-14, 2006, Washington
University in St. Louis.
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Our
aim is to bring together the best
specialists in individual and social aspects of memory to provide
precise conceptual foundations for the fledgling field of memory
studies, including processes of individual cognition, social
interaction, cultural transmission and identity formation. In
particular, we would like to discuss the precise applicability of
concepts such as accuracy, forgetting, schemata, interference,
emotional congruence, implicit memory, apply across the divide between
individual memory processes and cultural transmission and identity. We
would also like to explore how the tools of cognitive science can be
used in the study of culture and history.
Participants: Dorthe Berntsen, Aarhus - David Blight, Yale - Pascal Boyer, WU; Jennifer Cole, U of Chicago
- Larry Jacoby, WU - Erin McGlothlin, WU - Jamie Pennebaker, U of Texas
- Roddy Roediger, WU -
Michael Ross, U
of Waterloo - David Rubin,
Duke - Carlo Severi,
EHESS Paris - Dan Schacter,
Harvard - Lori Watt,
WU.
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Relevant Talks,
colloquia
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To be announed shortly - watch this
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