The graduate program in Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience (CPCN) at UCSB invites you to a seminar featuring Roddy Roediger (Washington University) on collective memory. Zoom ID below.

Collective memory refers to how people remember the events belonging to the groups with which they identify, such as beliefs of people about their country, their city, their alma mater, their place of work, and so on. Collective memories change over time and can be revised. “Memory wars” within a country or other group are not uncommon, such as the battle about how to remember the “heroes of the Confederacy” (as they are called in the South). Although collective memory has long been of interest in the humanities, psychologists have only recently become interested in applying their empirical methods to the study of these larger problems of memory. Roediger’s talk will be about several of his own excursions into this topic.

Henry L. Roediger, III is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He was educated at Washington & Lee University (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D.) and has taught previously at Purdue University, Rice University and the University of Toronto. Roediger’s research has centered on human learning and memory and he has published about 350 articles and chapters on these topics. His recent research has focused on illusions of memory or false memories, applying cognitive psychology to education, the relation between confidence and accuracy in memory, and collective memory. Roediger received the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists for his work on illusory memories. In 2012 he was named William James Fellow for Lifetime Achievements in Psychology from the Association for Psychological Science., and in 2017 he received the John P. McGovern Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as president of the Association of Psychological Science, the Midwestern Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Psychology, the Psychonomic Society and the Society of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science. Roediger served as editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Zoom ID: 86284454547