Discusses the problem of affective memory. Affective memory is the presupposition of the doctrine of emotional abstracts like all theories of emotional continuity and evolution. Pleasure and pain are ...the two constant elements of affective states. Recognition of affective states rests not on the definite quality of the ideal or organic elements but upon the dynamic relation of the elements of the emotional states. This revivability goes back to the dynamic relation of volition. Revival is the recognition of a state as familiar, while sentiments are more susceptible to revival than particular feelings and emotions. Emotions in representation is an ideal feeling, however, representation involves a degree of abstraction in which the algedonic intensity is lowered and the organic sensations dampened. The theories of Einfuhlung and Scheingefuhlen are also discussed.
Drawing on life history interviews conducted with former fishers and other older residents in Great Yarmouth – one of the 20% most deprived districts in England – this article explores how memories ...of a once flourishing fishing industry are used to make sense of the decline that followed the end of the industry in the 1960s. Focusing on the material and affective constituents of people’s memories, embodied in three categories of fishing-related objects (boats and quay, nets and fish) through which their stories are told, I explore how those formerly involved in fishing-related activities understand and experience the past and their world in the present. Using biographical and historical memories to reclaim their role in the making of a town that they consider to ‘have missed the boat’, they are able to make sense of the transformations that occurred and to reclaim their role as place makers.
Examined whether odors judged to be pleasant as opposed to unpleasant were more likely to be recalled. The author remarks that in some of the studies of affective memory the agreeable and ...disagreeable experiences to be recalled have not been produced under observed conditions, nor judged as agreeable or disagreeable at the time of the experience. The experiment to be reported does fulfil these conditions. Ten different odors (majoritatively essential oils) were selected, which seemed (to 3 observers) to offer a wide range of affective quality, and which seemed to be as equal as possible in intensity. As interest in identifying the odor would be a distraction from the experiment, it was decided, therefore, to allay curiosity by using the true names, and to pronounce them at the moment when the odor was being perceived. It was found that: of 1,020 pleasant impressions experienced 49%, were recalled. Of 882 unpleasant impressions 50%, were recalled, and of 98 'indifferent' ones 56%, were recalled. II. The presence of odor exerted a positive influence in promoting recall of odor names. III. No correlation was found between the memory value of odors and their affective value.
In this article I interrogate what is lost in war and displacement through the affective memories of Palestinian refugee women who remember through their body and what their body has endured. I ...reflect on how bodies and spaces connect and disconnect at violent junctures, and on the vital forces vulnerability and precariousness ignite in displacement. Throughout the geography of separations and shifting shelters, refugee women engaged in place‐making, transforming the transience enforced by their continuous evictions into the permanence of home, not as a static identity‐place‐nation, but as a site of dynamic affective, social relations and connections. Read through Michael Hardt's metaphor of “social muscles”, as bodily and emotional drives that blur the boundaries of intimate and social spaces, affective memories can serve as a political horizon that redesigns, in Arendtian terms, the love for the nation as love for concrete relations and for existing in the world.
The present study tested the applicability of expectancy-value theory to adults' learning motivation. Motivation was measured as the anticipated reaction (AR) of German students (N=300) to receiving ...their instructions in English as a new learning opportunity. We used structural equation modeling to test our hypotheses. Expectancies of success and values from school predicted current expectancy and value, which, in turn, accounted for about 64% of variance in AR. In addition, we explicitly tested the hitherto neglected role of affective memories as a major precursor of value, expectancy of success, and AR. Results show a small direct effect of only negative affective memories on AR, leading to a significant incremental prediction of AR in addition to expectancy and value. Thus, motivation and experiences at secondary school appear to play a crucial role in adults' learning motivation, mediated by expectancy and value specific to the learning opportunity.
► Expectancy-value theory was applied to explain adults' learning motivation. ► Learning motivation from secondary school has been found to play a crucial role in adults' learning motivation. ► School-related affective memories appear to have only a small effect on subsequent learning motivation.
•Reactivation of opiate withdrawal memories suppresses operant behavior for food.•Context effect on behavioral responding is invigorated by the cue.•catFISH for Arc expression differentiates context ...and cue influences on behavioral.•Specific reactivity in NAC-BLA-HPC network discriminates these differential responses.
Opiate withdrawal induces an early aversive state which can be associated to contexts and/or cues, and re-exposure to either these contexts or cues may participate in craving and relapse. Nucleus accumbens (NAC), hippocampus (HPC) and basolateral amygdala (BLA) are crucial substrates for acute opiate withdrawal, and for withdrawal memory retrieval. Also HPC and BLA interacting with the NAC are suggested to respectively mediate the processing of context and cue representations of drug-related memories. Here we used a paradigm of conditioned suppression of operant food seeking, allowing to differentiate context and cue related responses, to study the influence of withdrawal memories on operant behavior and the underlying neural substrates. catFISH for Arc mRNA expression was used to discriminate cellular responses during context and cue (flashing light) periods in this paradigm. We show that reactivation of the memory of the negative affective state of withdrawal suppresses active lever pressing for food, and this conditioned suppression is generalized to the context. Interestingly the behavioral responses during the context and cue light periods are associated with differential Arc mRNA activations within the NAC, BLA, and HPC. Indeed both periods led to NAC shell activation whereas the NAC core was responsive only following the cue light period. Moreover, BLA and HPC were more responsive during cue-light and context period respectively. These data further support the already reported differential role of these brain structures on cue vs context-induced reinstatement of operant behaviors, and highlight the existence of common mechanisms for the processing of positive and aversive emotional memories.
The article proposes reflections on interdisciplinary relationships that consider
space, emotion and memory. It explores aspects of design’s cultural influence and social
responsibility, ...possibilities for dialogue with other areas of knowledge, and the ability to
weave relationships between knowledge. A creative project experience in the field of Social
Design is set in motion, whose theoretical principles and methodological practices underlie a photographic essay. The unique experience resulted in the book “Old memories,
memories of life”, inspired by the affective reports of fourteen elderly people housed in
Vila Vicentina, a space of ‘a solidarity happening’. Although displaced from their origins,
the sense of reality is not lost and the new space becomes definitive for reminiscences of
the past to live with the present and propose a look to the future.
O artigo propõe reflexões acerca das relações interdisciplinares que consideram
espaço, emoção e memória. Explora aspectos da influência cultural e responsabilidade social do Design na atualidade, possibilidades de diálogo com outras áreas do conhecimento
e capacidade de tecer relações entre saberes. Coloca-se em cena uma experiência projetual
criativa na área do Design Social, cujos princípios teóricos e práticas metodológicas fundamentaram um ensaio fotográfico. A vivência singular resultou no livro “Velhas lembranças, memórias de vida”, inspirado nos relatos afetivos de quatorze idosos abrigados
na Vila Vicentina, espaço de ‘um acontecer solidário’. Embora deslocados de suas origens,
a sensação de realidade não se perde e o novo espaço torna-se definitivo para que reminiscências do passado convivam com o presente e proponham um olhar para o futuro.
El artículo propone reflexiones sobre las relaciones interdisciplinarias que consideran el espacio, la emoción y la memoria. Explora aspectos de la influencia cultural
y de responsabilidad social del Diseño en la actualidad, las posibilidades de diálogo con
otras áreas del conocimiento y de la capacidad de tejer relaciones entre saberes. Se pone en
escena una experiencia proyectual creativa en el campo del diseño social, cuyos principios
teóricos y prácticas metodológicas fundamentaron un ensayo fotográfico. La experiencia
única resultó en el libro “Viejos recuerdos, memorias de vida”, inspirado en los informes
afectivos de catorce personas ancianas alojadas en la Vila Vicentina, un espacio de «un
evento solidario”. Aunque desplazados de sus orígenes, el sentido de la realidad no se pierde y el nuevo espacio se convierte en definitivo, para que las reminiscencias del pasado
convivan con el presente y propongan una mirada al futuro.
The aim of this article is to examine the collection of short stories Sous le jasmin la nuit (2004) and the narrative Entendez-vous dans les montagnes... (2002), by Maissa Bey, a pseudonym taken by ...the Algerian writer and which allowed her to escape from the adverse conditions of a period of great political instability in Algeria, in the nineties. Through literature she gives voice to charac-ters that wander in the conflicting periods that made the recent history of the country, such as the French colonization, the fights for independence, as well as the political crisis arisen in the nineties. In her work, we find the coexistence of the story as personal experience and the great History, the individual memory and the collective memory of the painful episodes of the colonial time, the wounds inflicted by the decolonization and the complex relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed. Thus, her work joins autobiography, fiction and History. When Maissa Bey sets about revisiting her past through the narrative of a personal experience, it is, at the same time, an attempt to better understand the present of the Algerian immigrant and to unveil the fragments of the historical past of her country that many tried to keep in silence.
The aim of this article is to examine the collection of short stories Sous le jasmin la nuit (2004) and the narrative Entendez-vous dans les montagnes´ (2002), by Maïssa Bey, a pseudonym taken by the ...Algerian writer and which allowed her to escape from the adverse conditions of a period of great political instability in Algeria, in the nineties. Through literature she gives voice to characters that wander in the conflicting periods that made the recent history of the country, such as the French colonization, the fights for independence, as well as the political crisis arisen in the nineties. In her work, we find the coexistence of the story as personal experience and the great History, the individual memory and the collective memory of the painful episodes of the colonial time, the wounds inflicted by the decolonization and the complex relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed. Thus, her work joins autobiography, fiction and History. When Maïssa Bey sets about revisiting her past through the narrative of a personal experience, it is, at the same time, an attempt to better understand the present of the Algerian immigrant and to unveil the fragments of the historical past of her country that many tried to keep in silence.
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