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And we're back! Season 2 of The Memory Palace starts today, with a beautiful post about dreaming and memory from Melanie Rosen. A thought-provoking read and a great start to our fall lineup!

Today at The Memory Palace: What is it like to remember your past when you don't use mental images to do so? Margherita Arcangeli on episodic memory and aphantasia, with a compelling suggestion to broaden our ideas of memory phenomenology. Enjoy!

Forgiveness as a lens through which to explore the content of episodic memory. Felipe De Brigard and Gabriela Fernández Miranda are at The Memory Palace today, sharing their beautiful and important work on memory and forgiveness in Colombia. A great read!

Does it seem like ages since the our last post, or as if it was only yesterday? Wherever it’s placed in your mental timeline, Jerry Viera is at the Palace today to raise some interesting puzzles for the phenomenon - and point toward the future via the study of perception. Enjoy!

Cultural memory and memorialization shape how members of a society experience and repair from past wrongdoing. Melanie Altanian (University of Freiburg) is at The Memory Palace today, sharing themes from her recent open access book The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism.

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To keep relationships going forward, it helps to talk about the past. Johannes Mahr is at The Memory Palace today, sharing insights about joint reminiscing and its communicative and epistemic power. Give it a read - and then call a friend!

“Why do precisely these memories constitute my past?” Carlos Montemayor poses this question at the Memory Palace today, exploring two senses in which we can be familiar with our past. Take a look!

Our memories of the past and stories we tell about ourselves are deeply interwoven - and connected to our physical and social world. Regina Fabry is at The Memory Palace today discussing the dynamic relationship between memory, narrative, and the social. Check it out!

You're not dreaming: it's another post from The Memory Palace! A bonus entry this week, from Daniel Gregory and Kourken Michaelian on their edited volume Dreaming & Memory, which is fresh off the press from Springer this week - Enjoy!

When a memory comes to mind, is it in the same way that familiar people can be hard to place out of context - recognizable, but hard to place? Christoph Hoerl (Warwick) is at The Memory Palace today, unraveling the idea of familiarity as a marker for memory. A great read!

Very excited to have Tomás Ryan at Purdue today talking all things engram!

This was such a fun session - a great opportunity to explore engram circuits in particular and neural circuits in general.

Changsheng Lai is at The Memory Palace today, previewing the 2nd Shanghai-Grenoble philosophy of memory conference, on memory and meta cognition. A great preview, and an invitation to join the event virtually!

The sense(s) of touch provides a boundary through which we can understand ourselves. How is this sense of bounded self retained in memory? I a Apostolova is at The Memory Palace today, exploring the connections between memory and touch. Check it out!

Episodic memories depict the past. This suggests it may be profitable to think of memories as pictures. Kristina Liefke is at The Memory Palace today exploring this fruitful intersection. Take a look!

What and how we remember is not simply a given; it's something we learn to do. César Schirmer Dos Santos (ce_s ) is at The Memory Palace this week, exploring the significance of this idea. Enjoy!

Finishing off The Memory Palace 2024 series with a post from Kourken Michaelian and Denis Perrin, reflecting on the past, present, and future of their impressive and influential Centre for Philosophy of Memory in Grenoble. Enjoy, and we'll see you in the new year!

Closing summation by Sarah Robins