Would there be, on the one hand, individual memory (with its functions of recording and storing personal memories) and, on the other, collective memory, made up of the way in which events were perceived and are related to the within a group?
The answer is no, we learn from neuroscience.
Because these two memories interact strongly with each other, in particular with the objective of "updating" our own memories.
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The brain region that allows this integration of data has been identified: it is located in the median prefrontal cortex which is connected to the hippocampus by a large network, that is to say to the area where the events are encoded for y be memorized.
The novelty is that researchers have shown for the first time that this area of the median prefrontal cortex is also dedicated to collective memory.
The links between individual memory and collective memory can therefore no longer be ignored.
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