Cultural proximity reveals a local premium in collective memory
Abstract
Wikipedia attention data and a large-scale recognition experiment reveal a local premium in collective memory. Participants recognize figures from their own country and language more accurately. Major life events also generate different trajectories of local and global attention.
Type
Publication
PNAS Nexus, 5(10), pgag308
Recognition by country and language proximity. Macedo, Oyarzun, Candia and Hidalgo (2026), Figure 3. CC BY 4.0. DOI.
Melanie Oyarzún
Research Scientist
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Director of CRiSS-LAB.
Cristian Candia is a computational social scientist studying human and collective behavior with large-scale data, network science, experiments, and AI.