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"Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature" is a book that provides a feminist analysis of sexual violence in late medieval literature, focusing on the pastourelle genre. The volume includes essays that explore the connections between medieval texts and present-day rape culture, highlighting alternative coping strategies and intersectionality. The book aims to demystify the standard script survivors of sexual violence are expected to adhere to and offers fresh perspectives on navigating the complexities of rape culture. [Extracted from the article]

The book review discusses "Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience" by Bence Nanay, highlighting the historical context and significance of mental imagery in cognitive studies. Nanay's work offers a comprehensive examination of mental imagery, bridging philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives. The book explores the functional mechanisms of mental imagery and its impact on perception, emotions, actions, and desires, making it a valuable resource for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists interested in understanding the role of mental imagery in cognition and perception. [Extracted from the article]

The text is a book review essay discussing three books on psychoanalysts' correspondence. It highlights the importance of correspondence in the development of psychoanalytic concepts and the relationship between Freud and Jung. The review also delves into the life and work of Sabina Spielrein, emphasizing her contributions to psychoanalysis and her tragic fate during World War II. Additionally, it explores the correspondence between Ludwig Klages and Friedrich Salomon Rothschild, shedding light on their interdisciplinary orientation and shared concepts. The review concludes by recommending the books to readers interested in the history and development of psychoanalysis. [Extracted from the article]

"The Analyst's Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference" by Dhwani Shah is a book that explores the concept of countertransference in psychoanalysis. The book examines the potential for countertransference to obstruct the analytic process while also acknowledging its vital role. Shah identifies eight countertransferential pitfalls, including arrogance, racism, dread, erotic dread, dissociation, shame, hopelessness, and jealousy. Through clinical examples, Shah normalizes these reactions and demonstrates the importance of staying with and understanding these difficult states. The book is recommended for students in clinical graduate programs and psychoanalytically informed practitioners and scholars. [Extracted from the article]

"The Burden of Traumascapes: Discourses of remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond" by Maida Kosatica is a comprehensive study that explores the persistence of war through discourses of remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond. The book examines how trauma is materialized and experienced in physical, virtual, and personal spaces, and how it affects individuals and communities. Kosatica analyzes various forms of expression, including graffscapes, online comments, living memorials, and life stories of the Bosnian diaspora in Switzerland. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the multidimensional nature of discourses of remembering and the need to remain engaged and responsible in the face of ongoing societal tensions. [Extracted from the article]

"Translating Memories of Violent Pasts" is a book that explores the intersection between Memory Studies and Translation Studies. The book examines how memory circulates through translation, particularly in relation to trauma and the creation of new artifacts. The chapters in the book analyze various works, such as memoirs and novels, and discuss the role of translation in transmitting memories of violent events. The book also emphasizes the ethical responsibility of translators in safeguarding the transmission of testimony and the importance of cultural context in the translation process. Overall, the book fosters critical and multidisciplinary dialogue and sheds light on the complex process of translating traumatic memories. [Extracted from the article]

In "Holocaust and the Stars: The Past in the Prose of Stanisław Lem," Agnieszka Gajewska delves into the hidden fragments of Stanisław Lem's personal experiences and Jewish identity that influenced his creative output. Gajewska uncovers Lem's deliberate obfuscation of his past in his works, shedding light on the impact of his history on his writing. Through a deep analysis of Lem's works, Gajewska explores themes of memory, trauma, and witnessing, offering new insights to both long-time Lem fans and scholars of the Holocaust. Her book provides a unique perspective on Lem's cosmos, revealing the hidden constellations of his life experiences within his imaginative worlds. [Extracted from the article]

"The Great Exodus from China" by Dominic Yang is a sociological study that explores the memories and identities of waishengren, or mainland Chinese who migrated to Taiwan in 1949. The book examines the meanings behind the experiences and emotions of waishengren, highlighting the significance of memory as a meaning-making process. Yang argues that memory serves a therapeutic function, helping displaced populations find solace, a sense of belonging, and reconciliation. The study resonates with the sociology of memory, which emphasizes the role of memory in understanding history, meaning-making, and theodicy, or the explanation of human suffering and injustice. The book provides valuable insights into the complex relationship between memory, trauma, and identity. [Extracted from the article]

The book review discusses "Energy, soul-connecting and awakening consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm" by Ruthie Smith, focusing on energy psychotherapy and its evolution in the UK. The text explores the origins of energy psychotherapy, its integration with psychoanalytic principles, and practical methods for conducting energy psychotherapy. Ruthie Smith's personal and professional journey, integrating Buddhist and energy healing with psychoanalytic work, is also highlighted. The review emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of energy psychotherapy, combining psychology, spirituality, and physics to create a new therapeutic landscape. [Extracted from the article]

The book review titled "Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times" by Zhiyi Yang explores the controversial figure of Wang Jingwei in modern Chinese literature and history. The book delves into Wang's life, poetry, and political identity, shedding light on his complex persona as a poet-politician in Republican China. Through a detailed analysis of Wang's poetry and historical context, Yang presents a nuanced perspective on Wang's legacy, challenging traditional views and offering a fresh interpretation of his contributions and flaws. The book, drawing from extensive research and archival materials, contributes significantly to the study of Chinese poet-politicians, political collaboration with Japan, and modern classicism, making it a valuable resource for scholars in these fields. [Extracted from the article]

The book review of "Why We Remember" by Charan Ranganath delves into the intricate processes of memory formation and how memories influence decision-making. Ranganath uses engaging analogies to explain memory development, focusing on the role of the hippocampus and neural connections in learning. While some aspects of memory theory are briefly touched upon, the book is praised for its educational and accessible approach to understanding memory systems and theories, making it a valuable resource for researchers, educators, and anyone interested in human memory. [Extracted from the article]

The book review discusses "Of Worlds and Artworks: A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora," which explores artistic creation across various media forms. The book challenges fixed perceptions of Africa and presents it as a flexible, interconnected space influenced by global interactions. It delves into different geographic and thematic contexts, examining how artworks operate as platforms for meaning-making and relationship-building. The volume offers diverse perspectives on how African and diasporic artworks contribute to global dialogues on identity, memory, and power, enriching our understanding of art's transformative potential. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Midwife of History: Violence in Literature, Performance, and Audiovisual Media in Latin America," edited by Osvaldo Sandoval-León and Chrystian Zegarra, is a collection of studies that analyze the representation of violence in contemporary cultural productions in Latin America. The authors examine different forms of violence and explore the historical and cultural contexts that have generated them. The book seeks to denounce the trauma present in the memory of post-conflict societies. Although the book covers a variety of national and cultural contexts in Latin America, it is noted that it lacks studies on dictatorships and political violence in Central American countries, as well as representations from the Caribbean. Additionally, it is highlighted that the book leans towards studies on Mexico and South American countries, and it is suggested that greater geographical diversity could balance the volume. Overall, the book is characterized by its focus on historical contextualization, critical cultural analysis, and understanding of violence, trauma, and collective memory in relation to cultural productions. [Extracted from the article]

The book review discusses Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco's work, "Crosses of Memory and Oblivion," which focuses on monuments to the fallen in the Spanish Civil War. The author's extensive study delves into the complex social attitudes and memory politics surrounding these monuments, shedding light on their historical significance. Through a combination of classic and new perspectives, the book explores the connections between monumentality, landscape, and evolving memory policies in Spain from 1936 to the present, appealing to a broad audience interested in Francoism and contemporary memory politics. [Extracted from the article]

Although long-term memory consolidation is supported by sleep, it is unclear how it differs from that during wakefulness. Our review, focusing on recent advances in the field, identifies the repeated replay of neuronal firing patterns as a basic mechanism triggering consolidation during sleep and wakefulness. During sleep, memory replay occurs during slow-wave sleep (SWS) in hippocampal assemblies together with ripples, thalamic spindles, neocortical slow oscillations, and noradrenergic activity. Here, hippocampal replay likely favors the transformation of hippocampus-dependent episodic memory into schema-like neocortical memory. REM sleep following SWS might balance local synaptic rescaling accompanying memory transformation with a sleep-dependent homeostatic process of global synaptic renormalization. Sleep-dependent memory transformation is intensified during early development despite the immaturity of the hippocampus. Overall, beyond its greater efficacy, sleep consolidation differs from wake consolidation mainly in that it is supported, rather than impaired, by spontaneous hippocampal replay activity possibly gating memory formation in neocortex. Brodt et al. review recent studies of synaptic and systems consolidation underlying long-term memory formation during sleep. While memory consolidation in both the sleep and wake states involves neuronal replay, only sleep consolidation critically relies on the hippocampal memory system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spatial navigation and memory are often seen as heavily intertwined at the cognitive and neural levels of analysis. We review models that hypothesize a central role for the medial temporal lobes, including the hippocampus, in both navigation and aspects of memory, particularly allocentric navigation and episodic memory. While these models have explanatory power in instances in which they overlap, they are limited in explaining functional and neuroanatomical differences. Focusing on human cognition, we explore the idea of navigation as a dynamically acquired skill and memory as an internally driven process, which may better account for the differences between the two. We also review network models of navigation and memory, which place a greater emphasis on connections rather than the functions of focal brain regions. These models, in turn, may have greater explanatory power for the differences between navigation and memory and the differing effects of brain lesions and age. Neurobiological models often assume a correspondence between memory and spatial navigation based on the idea of the cognitive map. The authors review recent literature, highlighting important distinctions between memory and navigation and discussing novel models for their independent neural underpinnings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last decade has produced exciting new ideas about retrosplenial cortex (RSC) and its role in integrating diverse inputs. Here, we review the diversity in forms of spatial and directional tuning of RSC activity, temporal organization of RSC activity, and features of RSC interconnectivity with other brain structures. We find that RSC anatomy and dynamics are more consistent with roles in multiple sensorimotor and cognitive processes than with any isolated function. However, two more generalized categories of function may best characterize roles for RSC in complex cognitive processes: (1) shifting and relating perspectives for spatial cognition and (2) prediction and error correction for current sensory states with internal representations of the environment. Both functions likely take advantage of RSC's capacity to encode conjunctions among sensory, motor, and spatial mapping information streams. Together, these functions provide the scaffold for intelligent actions, such as navigation, perspective taking, interaction with others, and error detection. What is the retrosplenial cortex and what does it do? Alexander et al. discuss theories inspired by these questions and highlight their limitations. They propose that retrosplenial activity serves to relate spatial perspectives and to generate predictions about environmental interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brain Structure and Function 27 Wagner J, Rusconi E. Causal involvement of the left angular gyrus in higher functions as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation: a systematic review. Connectivity proper is more directly addressed by tracer injections in NHP, but here there is a problem about homologies with the human brain, both of injection site (i.e., the AG counterpart) and of the extended network of connections. 10.1007/s00429-022-02590-y 10 Hoemann K, Feldman Barrett L. Concepts dissolve artificial boundaries in the study of emotion and cognition, uniting body, brain, and mind. 10.1007/s00429-022-02569-9 17 Niu M, Palomero-Gallagher N. Architecture and connectivity of the human angular gyrus and of its homolog region in the macaque brain. [Extracted from the article]

Eekhoff states: Introjective identification is the capacity of the analyst to be at one with him or herself and the evolving experience of the moment with the patient. Judy Eekhoff has provided us with a personal exploration into the difficult and sometimes impossible psychotherapy of patients with primitive mental disorders. I hope to have conveyed my sense that Eekhoff has contributed significantly to the literature on working clinically with severely traumatized patients who use dissociation as a major defence and have a predominance of unrepresented or weakly represented self and object states. Eekhoff's use of black hole is close to Bion and Grotstein, yet, as she rightly points out, the black hole is also felt as safety, a landscape within which the patient can hide and feel protected. [Extracted from the article]

Defining trauma in this context as "mediation of failed mediation" (p. 1), Pinchevski considers different periods and mediums in and through which trauma and traumatic events were circulated, negotiated or represented. Media and trauma are technologically intertwined and even interdependent, this is one of the central arguments of Amit Pinchevski's wide-ranging and important book I Transmitted Wounds i (2019). Pinchevski, who draws on Kittler, argues that media condition trauma through their non-discursive and non-symbolic mechanisms. [Extracted from the article]

In the introductory chapter, Khan recognizes three critical issues, including the following: How detrimental "is mental and emotional trauma", especially when it occurs over generations? Educational strategies for youth empowerment in conflict zones: transforming, not transmitting, trauma: by Nyla Ali Khan, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 231 pp., €93.59 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-66225-7, (eBook), ISBN 978-3-030-66226-4 I Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones: Transforming, not Transmitting, Trauma i is a timely and comprehensive book written by social activist and academic Nyla Ali Khan. [Extracted from the article]

• CA1 pyramidal cells represent both space and context. • During encoding, distinct subsets of CA1 neurons are allocated to contextual indexing and spatial mapping. • The hippocampal role in memory might not be unitary rather heterogeneous. The hippocampus is essential for some types of memory, but its specific role remains conjectural. While studies on place cells have supported the hypothesis that the hippocampus provides a spatial substrate for episodic memory, recent engram studies have shown that optogenetic activation of a subset of hippocampal neurons that lack a temporal structure of the spike sequences can also induce memory-associated behavior. In this short review, I discuss the various lines of research that have led to different views of the role of the hippocampus in memory and propose a plausible interpretation of the findings that incorporates two influential theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People with a psychotic disorder suffer from major cognitive impairments which prevent their functional recovery. Source memory impairments have been shown to be associated with psychotic symptoms and even to precede their onset. Source memory has thus been hypothesized as a cognitive precursor of psychosis. However, few interventions targeting source memory are included in current therapeutic approaches for early psychosis. Aim: This systematic review aimed to identify non‐pharmacological interventions for early psychosis which have impacted source memory processes. Methods: Studies were selected from nine databases when they included: (a) a non‐pharmacological intervention involving a sample of patients with early‐onset psychotic disorder or subclinical psychotic symptoms; and (b) effects on source memory processes, measured directly or inferred through an episodic memory task. Results: Thirteen studies were identified, including two cognitive remediation programs and one repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment that reported beneficial effects on source memory. Conclusions: Relevant intervention strategies for source memory impairments were identified. This review points up a need to further develop interventions targeting theoretically defined source memory concepts and assess their effects with specific and valid tasks. Recommendations regarding underlying mechanisms which could have a beneficial impact on source memory may provide guidance for the future development of early psychosis interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this regard, Michaelian is protecting the epistemic status of episodic memory while preserving the view that episodic memory is constructive. Kourken Michaelian is one of the principal architects in the emerging field of philosophy of memory (see, e.g., Michaelian & Sutton, [2]). Nonetheless, Michaelian grants that imagination and episodic memory tend to have typical phenomenological points of difference, such as vivacity. [Extracted from the article]

Artificial neural networks experience serious catastrophic forgetting (or interference) when information is learned sequentially. A significant effort in the machine learning community is devoted to the solution of this problem. Many approaches to overcome the catastrophic interference (CI) find parallels with an organization of the human memory system. In this paper, we provide a review of biologically inspired approaches for CI prevention. The main emphasis is made on the development of methods inspired by generative properties of the brain. We developed and tested several methods for preventing CI using an artificial dataset generated on the base of previous experience of neural network. The proposed methods include the activation maximization approach, the method based on Bayesian learning, and the method based on generative neural networks. The methods based on a combination of episodic memory (several stored samples) and semantic memory (sampling of posterior probability function) show superiority compared to other recent methods devoted to CI prevention. Based on generative approaches, the biologically plausible mechanisms of active forgetting and memory reconsolidation are also demonstrated. The proof of concept experiments were performed on several publicly available datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ability to recognise past events along with the contexts in which they occurred is a hallmark of episodic memory, a critical capacity. Eye movements have been shown to track veridical memory for the associations between events and their contexts (relational binding). Such eye-movement effects emerge several seconds before, or in the absence of, explicit response, and are linked to the integrity and function of the hippocampus. Drawing from research from infancy through late childhood, and by comparing to investigations from typical adults, patient populations, and animal models, it seems increasingly clear that eye movements reflect item–item, item–temporal, and item–spatial associations in developmental populations. We analyse this line of work, identify missing pieces in the literature and outline future avenues of research, in order to help elucidate the development of episodic memory. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Milne, and the testimony of other boarding school survivors, thus serve as both a contrapuntal narrative and a methodological tool that made Jack's self-interrogation more manageable and more probing. Although Jack does not directly express it in these terms, as an historian of children's institutions it was clear to me throughout the text that Jack was describing an institutionalised childhood. In the conclusion Jack argues that boarding schools are inherently problematic. [Extracted from the article]

Can these heterotopic gardens cross-pollinate with the memory ecosystems inside the PRC so that the stymied undergrowth there may someday unfurl into a vibrant, biodiverse forest - in all the inventive ways that Li envisions in the epilogue? If one were to follow the prompt of Jie Li, author of I Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era i , and visualize the memory landscape of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the scenery could be strangely bifurcated. Remember that the memory landscape of the PRC, for all its officially orchestrated collective amnesia, is not a wasteland riddled with "memory holes" á la I 1984 i , but rather a flourishing orchard full of luscious (if monocultural) fruit trees. [Extracted from the article]