scholarly journals Exploring the Infra-Ordinary (the “Oblique Glance” as Autobiographical Strategy)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Catrinel Popa
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Georges Perec ◽  
Plural Identity ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Screen Memories ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article aims at analyzing the relationship between intertextual and autobiographical memory in Georges Perec and Radu Cosaşu’s writings, revealing several of their characteristics, similarities and paradoxes. Starting from the assumption that almost every book Georges Perec ever wrote (regardless of whether essays, autobiographical accounts, travel sketches, screen plays or novels), carries the stamp of his struggle to construct a plural identity (trying to harmonize his Jewish-Polish origin, the legacy of traumatic past-experiences - his father’s death on the battle field when he was less than six, his mother’s deportation to Auschwitz and her subsequent death etc.), and that for Cosaşu the identity “quest” is central, too, I intend to demonstrate that obliquity represents in both situations a key-concept. Moreover, when reading their childhood recollections, Georges Perec’s notes on his journey to London or Radu Cosaşu’s account of his puzzling travel to Moscow in 1968, we notice that the strategy of the oblique glance gradually generates a sort of “industrial production” of screen-memories or rather the memory of a whole generation. Besides, we can envisage the possibility of understanding their exploration of the “infra-ordinary” as an occasion for reconsidering the various interplays between writing and remembering, intertextuality and imagination, or - as Perec puts it - between “space as inventory” and “space as invention”.

scholarly journals On the relationship between autobiographical episodic memory and spatial navigation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina L. Fan ◽  
Hervé Abdi ◽  
Brian Levine
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Spatial Navigation ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Online Study ◽  
The Common ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Relationship

Influential research has focused on identifying the common neural and behavioural substrates underlying episodic memory (the recall of specific details from past experiences) and spatial cognition, with some theories proposing that these are supported by the same mechanisms. However, the similarities and differences between these two forms of memory in humans require further specification. We used an individual-differences approach based on self-reported survey data collected in a large online study (n = 7487), focusing on autobiographical episodic memory and spatial navigation and their relationship to object and spatial imagery abilities. Multivariate analyses replicated prior findings that autobiographical episodic memory abilities dissociated from spatial navigational abilities. Considering imagery, episodic autobiographical memory overlapped with imagery of objects, whereas spatial navigation overlapped with a tendency to focus on spatial schematics and manipulation. These results suggest that episodic autobiographical memory and spatial navigation correspond to distinct mental processes.

Do People’s Motives Influence Their Susceptibility to Imagination Inflation?

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie J. Sharman ◽  
Samantha Calacouris
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Source Monitoring ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
Explicit Motives ◽  
Imagination Inflation ◽  
Motivational Model ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Affiliation Motives

People are motivated to remember past autobiographical experiences related to their current goals; we investigated whether people are also motivated to remember false past experiences related to those goals. In Session 1, we measured subjects’ implicit and explicit achievement and affiliation motives. Subjects then rated their confidence about, and memory for, childhood events containing achievement and affiliation themes. Two weeks later in Session 2, subjects received a “computer-generated profile” based on their Session 1 ratings. This profile suggested that one false achievement event and one false affiliation event had happened in childhood. After imagining and describing the suggested false events, subjects made confidence and memory ratings a second time. For achievement events, subjects’ explicit motives predicted their false beliefs and memories. The results are explained using source monitoring and a motivational model of autobiographical memory.

INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS AND INDUSTRY

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Alexander N. Bryntsev ◽  
◽  
M.A. Bykova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Macroeconomic Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

In the article, the authors consider the issues of the relationship between global supply chains and industrial production of semiconductors in modern conditions. Particular attention is paid to the applied value of the application of artificial intelligence technologies in industry in the light of the growth of global competition. Their specific features, strengths and weaknesses are shown. A brief macroeconomic analysis of the development of markets for robotics, the automotive industry, high-tech products, as well as modern regulations on the eve of a new technological order is given.

scholarly journals The relationship between borderline symptoms and vantage perspective during autobiographical memory retrieval in a community sample

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Van den Broeck ◽  
Jasmin Reza ◽  
Sabine Nelis ◽  
Laurence Claes ◽  
Guido Pieters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Memory Retrieval ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Mummy, Daddy, and Addiction: Implicit Insecure Attachment is Associated with Substance Use in College Students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfried Serra ◽  
Armand Chatard ◽  
Nina Tello ◽  
Ghina Harika-Germaneau ◽  
Xavier Noël ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Addictive Behaviors ◽  
Indirect Measures ◽  
Adult Attachment Styles ◽  
Single Category ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Relationship

Indirect measures of cognition have become an important tool in research on addiction. To date, however, no research has examined whether indirect measures of parent attachment relate to substance use. To examine this issue, a sample of college students (N = 121) was asked to complete two measures of explicit attachment (the Relationship Questionnaire; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991, and the Adult Attachment Styles; Collins & Read, 1990), and a measure of implicit attachment (the Single Category Implicit Association Test, Karpinski & Steinman, 2006). The indirect attachment measure assessed the strength of automatic mental association between the concepts parents and secure. Participants also completed different measures of tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol use. Results showed that, for most of the participants, the parents were considered a source of security at both the explicit and implicit levels. Direct and indirect attachment measures were not related to each other. Overall, explicit attachment was not related to substance use. However, implicit attachment was significantly associated with the use of licit (tobacco) and illicit (cannabis) drugs. We also found some evidence that polydrug use is especially common among students with an insecure implicit attachment. This is the first study to examine how implicit attachment processes relate to addictive behaviors. The results suggest that implicit attachment, thought to reflect unconscious traces of past experiences, is a better predictor of substance use in college students than direct, self-reported measures of attachment. Further studies should examine whether implicit attachment is associated with severe substance use disorders in clinical populations.

scholarly journals Relationship Between Industrial Production and Pawnshop Market of the Ural Macroregion

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 05020
Author(s):  
Natalia Novikova ◽  
Mariia Rigel
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Production ◽  
Market Development ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Economic Region ◽  
Economic Entity ◽  
Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽  
Perm Krai ◽  
Chelyabinsk Region ◽  
Economic Regions ◽  
The Relationship

The article focuses on the need to study the processes of a new high-tech industrialization (neo-industrialization) at the macroregion level. The object of the study is the economic region of the Russian Federation (the macroregion) as a relatively integral spatially localized and complexly structured socio-economic entity, which includes four Ural regions – Kurgan region, Orenburg region, Sverdlovsk region and Chelyabinsk region, Perm krai and two republics – Republic of Bashkortostan and Republic of Udmurtia, which corresponds to the borders of the Ural economic region according to the all-Russian classifier of economic regions. The purpose of this study is to prove the relationship between the level of industrial production and the level of the pawnshop market development in the Ural macroregion. The territory of the Ural macroregion is analyzed from the perspective of the relationship between the level of industrial production and the level of the pawnshop market development. The Authors proved the existence of a direct relationship between the level of industrial production and the level of pawnshops territorial concentration, and also identified the territories that are leaders in the pawnshops concentration. The Authors put forward a scientific hypothesis about the most effective model of pawnshop activity. The conclusion is made about mutually beneficial cooperation between precious metal processing enterprises and pawnshops, which contributes to the development of both the pawnshop sector and this type of industrial activity.

scholarly journals Autobiographical Memory and End-of-Life Treatment Preferences in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 606-606
Author(s):  
Yao Fu ◽  
Ellen Idler
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Feeding Tube ◽  
Treatment Preferences ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Gastric Feeding ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
End Of Life Treatment

Abstract In this mixed-methods study of religious/cultural beliefs and end-of-life treatment preferences in China, we surveyed 1,085 mainland Chinese people aged 18 or above online. We assessed the effects of past experience with dying people they have known and their own end-of-life treatment preferences in two hypothetical terminal illness vignettes. We found that respondents who knew or visited someone at the end of their lives were somewhat less likely to choose aggressive treatment for themselves in a lung cancer scenario (25% compared to 33%, p=.013). However, there was less difference in an Alzheimer’s disease scenario, with a choice to use a gastric feeding tube or not (39% compared to 42%, p=.262). Open-ended responses indicate that people refer to these past experiences as a reference in making end-of-life decisions for themselves. This study provides empirical evidence that autobiographical memory has a directive function that individuals call on to inform future behaviors.

scholarly journals Enhanced brain activity associated with memory access in highly superior autobiographical memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (30) ◽  
pp. 7795-7800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Santangelo ◽  
Clarissa Cavallina ◽  
Paola Colucci ◽  
Alessia Santori ◽  
Simone Macrì ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Memory Function ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Functional Coupling ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction ◽  
Memory Impairments ◽  
Efficient Access ◽  
Sensory Cortices ◽  
Past Experiences

Brain systems underlying human memory function have been classically investigated studying patients with selective memory impairments. The discovery of rare individuals who have highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) provides, instead, an opportunity to investigate the brain systems underlying enhanced memory. Here, we carried out an fMRI investigation of a group of subjects identified as having HSAM. During fMRI scanning, eight subjects with HSAM and 21 control subjects were asked to retrieve autobiographical memories (AMs) as well as non-AMs (e.g., examples of animals). Subjects were instructed to signal the “access” to an AM by a key press and to continue “reliving” it immediately after. Compared with controls, individuals with HSAM provided a richer AM recollection and were faster in accessing AMs. The access to AMs was associated with enhanced prefrontal/hippocampal functional connectivity. AM access also induced increased activity in the left temporoparietal junction and enhanced functional coupling with sensory cortices in subjects with HSAM compared with controls. In contrast, subjects with HSAM did not differ from controls in functional activity during the reliving phase. These findings, based on fMRI assessment, provide evidence of interaction of brain systems engaged in memory retrieval and suggest that enhanced activity of these systems is selectively involved in enabling more efficient access to past experiences in HSAM.

Aggregate congressional trading and stock market returns

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Serkan Karadas ◽  
Minh Tam Tammy Schlosky ◽  
Joshua C. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Macroeconomic Information ◽  
Corporate Insiders ◽  
The Media ◽  
Congressional Trading ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose What information do members of Congress (politicians) use when they trade stocks? The purpose of this paper is to attempt to answer this question by investigating the relationship between an aggregate measure of trading by members of Congress (aggregate congressional trading) and future stock market returns. Design/methodology/approach The authors follow the empirical framework used in academic work on corporate insiders. In particular, they aggregate 61,998 common stock transactions by politicians over the 2004–2010 period and estimate time series regressions at a monthly frequency with heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation robust t-statistics. Findings The authors find that aggregate congressional trading predicts future stock market returns, suggesting that politicians use economy-wide (i.e. macroeconomic) information in their stock trades. The authors also present evidence that aggregate congressional trading is related to the growth rate of industrial production, suggesting that industrial production serves as a potential channel through which aggregate congressional trading predicts future stock market returns. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to document a relationship between aggregate congressional trading and stock market returns. The media and scholarly attention on politicians’ trades have mostly focused on the question of whether politicians have superior information on individual firms. The results from this study suggest that politicians’ informational advantage may go beyond individual firms such that they potentially have superior information on the overall trajectory of the economy as well.

The Role of Implicit Mechanisms in Buffering Self-Esteem from Social Threats

2016 ◽  
pp. 1054-1076
Author(s):  
Jordan B. Leitner ◽  
Chad E. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Neuroscience ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Light ◽  
Social Threats

Previous research has demonstrated that people have the goal of self-enhancing, or viewing themselves in an overly positive light. However, only recent research has examined the degree to which the relationship between self-enhancement goals and outcomes are a result of explicit deliberative mechanisms or implicit automatic mechanisms. The current chapter reviews evidence on unconscious goal pursuit, autobiographical memory, social neuroscience, and implicit self-esteem that suggests that implicit mechanisms play a powerful role in producing self-enhancement outcomes. Furthermore, this chapter reviews evidence that these implicit mechanisms are activated by social threats and thus contribute to successful coping. Finally, the authors discuss the implications of implicit self-enhancement mechanisms for targets of stigma, individuals who frequently encounter threats to well-being.

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