Journal Identification = NRP Article Identification = 0620 Date: June 21, 2021 Time: 5:9 pm
doi:10.1684/nrp.2021.0620
REVUE DE NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE
NEUROSCIENCES COGNITIVES ET CLINIQUES
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Foreword
Rev Neuropsychol
2020 ; 12 (S1) : 1
Memory and COVID-19 *
Mémoire et Covid-19
To cite this article: Pécou I. Memory and COVID-19. Rev Neuropsychol 2020;12(S1):1 doi:10.1684/nrp.2021.0620
The pandemic that is raging questions us about tomor- row’s world and the influence it will have in the near and distant future. What about this memory that shapes us and necessarily projects us towards the memory of the future?
Beyond the health and the societal aspects, what will be the impact on our memory in the broad sense, the mem- ory of each individual, the collective memory, the memory of companies, the digital memory including new technolo- gies and their uses, the overabundance and telescoping of sometimes contradictory information. Will we forget, “will we move on”? Who remembered the Spanish flu and its origin, which has been seen to resurface in the media? Is our memory volatile? How much control do individuals and society have over the management of emotions and their influence on memory? Do disasters of any kind have salutary or deleterious effects on our memory? The prism of memory is broad, the interactions between the different forms of memory and the decompartmentalization of sci- entific disciplines open up horizons that bring together the members of the Scientific Council of theObservatoire B2V des Mémoires(B2V Observatory of Memories). This sharing of knowledge between the neurosciences and the human sciences is led by the neuropsychologist Francis Eustache,
∗This article is an English language translation of the following article:
Pécou I. Mémoire et Covid 19.Rev Neuropsychol2020 ; 12 (2) : 105.
doi:10.1684/nrp.2020.0542.
the neurologist Catherine Thomas-Antérion, the epidemiol- ogist Hélène Amieva, the neurobiologist Robert Jaffard, the philosopher Bernard Stiegler, the historian Denis Peschan- ski and the artificial intelligence specialist and chairman of the ethics committee of the CNRS Jean-Gabriel Ganascia ; it is notably reflected in the collective works they have written for theObservatoire B2V des mémoires.
TheObservatoire B2V des Mémoiresis delighted, along- side John Libbey Editions, to contribute its collaboration and that of the members of its Scientific Council to this issue.
Isabelle Pécou, directeur général du Fonds de dotation Observatoire B2V des Mémoires et du Groupe B2V.
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Conflict of interest None.
