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Remembering Timelines
& Storylines
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Memory Science for Event Sequence
Why human brains prefer narrative distortions
over detailed chronologies, and how we can leverage
the one towards preserving the other
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Exploratory. Multidisciplinary. Monograph.
this project asks the following questions
How can we optimize memory for a timeline, without rote memorization or narrativization?
When chronology does cohere in our memories, does it merely resemble a “story” or is there a more precise cognitive dynamic at work?
How does each type of “Temporal Information” facilitate and distort memory in unique ways?
Event memories that indicate their own temporal sequence (e.g., details featuring causality, movement, location, disruption, and familiar time patterns) accommodate constructive retrieval.
This promising research may support new scaffolding strategies for composition, hermeneutics, pedagogy, and public discourse.
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Publication Date
T.B.A.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Chronology & Memory
Part One: Memory Science
M1 Defining the Problem Scientifically
M2 Seeking a Scientific Solution
Part Two: Hypothesis
Temporal Indicators in Memory and Storytelling
T1 Formal Time (and General Caveats)
T2 Schematic Time
T3 Cause & Effect
T4 Location & Movement
T5 Disruption & Equilibrium
T6 Reference & Referent
Part Three: Applications for NF Narrative
A1 Story/Memory
A2 Composition
A3 Hermeneutics