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Why Can Fashion Nostalgia Feel So Powerful?

Ask a Neuroscientist × Fashion, exhibition 004: The Memory Wardrobe

From RN Collins, selected work

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The articleWhy Can Fashion Nostalgia Feel So Powerful? ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app

Research cited

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  8. Yang Z et al. Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2022;17(12):1131–1144. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Other sources

  1. Memory Garment Field Map, RN Collins, 2026. ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app
  2. The evidence reading room for this exhibition: every claim, its source and what it does not prove ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app

Images, slide by slide

Image 1 in the essay
Dress, ca. 1872, cotton and porcelain, The Met 2003.426a, b. Public Domain / CC0.Public Domain / CC0Photo record
Image 2 in the essay
Dress, 1870s, cotton, The Met 1993.35.1a-c. Public Domain / CC0.Public Domain / CC0Photo record
Image 3 in the essay
Dress, ca. 1870, silk, The Met 1980.409.1a-c. Public Domain / CC0.Public Domain / CC0Photo record

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