memorystudies
Memory studies is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the nature, mechanisms, and societal implications of memory. It draws upon a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, history, sociology, philosophy, literature, and cultural studies. Researchers in memory studies explore both individual and collective memory, examining how memories are formed, stored, retrieved, and forgotten.
At the psychological level, memory studies investigates cognitive processes such as encoding, consolidation, and retrieval, and
From a historical and sociological perspective, memory studies examines how societies remember and forget events, the
The field also considers the impact of memory on the arts and humanities, analyzing how literature, film,