I cannot quite grasp how Jensen thinks an entire ethnic group successfully promoted a false memory, through the power of a popular song (aided by apparently widespread inebriation), or– the alternative narrative– as a cynical and calculated manipulation intended to promote political power.
Samuel Hand died from cancer when Learned was 14. Learned's mother thereafter promoted an idealized memory of her husband's professional success, intellectual abilities, and parental perfection, placing considerable pressure on her son.
However, we propose that lifelong physical activity promotes an epigenetic memory that serves to maintain skeletal muscle function during aging.
Far from promoting a "competition of memories," the series seeks to create a debate and establish an exchange between various groups, pointing out the similarities and the differences of their historical experience.
We also discuss evidence that the wake-sleep cycle promotes a postsynaptic propagation of memory traces away from the neural sites responsible for initial encoding.
In adulthood, compulsory national service promotes a militant nationalism which memories of overwhelming victory in the Six Day War have done nothing to soften.
During memory consolidation (a state promoted during sleep), memory traces within the hippocampal-neocortical circuitry undergo repeated reactivation, strengthening the connectivity between those neocortical networks representing features of experience.
This leads to reactivation of the adaptive immune system with accelerated proliferation and aging of memory lymphocytes, promoting a vicious circle where aged immune cells can lead to even further inflammation and, therefore, faster progression of underlying atherosclerosis.
Thus, these findings support a model by which the selective stabilization of memories for salient events is supported by postencoding interactions with sensory cortex associated with reward.Reward motivation is thought to promote memory by supporting memory consolidation.
Indeed, Experiments 1 and 2 showed that reminding promoted better memory performance for individual episodes than comparison.
