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Understanding autobiographical memory : theories and approaches /

"The field of autobiographical memory has made dramatic advances since the first collection of papers in the area was published in 1985. Now, over twenty-five years on, this book reviews and integrates the many theories, perspectives and approaches that have evolved over the last decades. A tru...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berntsen, Dorthe, 1962-, Rubin, David C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Understanding Autobiographical Memory; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Approaches to the study of autobiographical memory; Neural studies of autobiographical memory; Social and cultural aspects of autobiographical memory; Development of autobiographical memory from infancy to old age; Evolution and basic processes of autobiographical memory; Discussion; References; Part I Approaches to the study of autobiographical memory; 2 The basic systems model of autobiographical memory.
  • The model applied to an autobiographical eventThe coordination among and development of the systems; The basic systems model applied to related tasks; The model contrasted with our current approaches; Four flawed assumptions from cognitive psychology; Three fundamental challenges to cognitive psychology; Separate semantic and episodic memory systems; A separate short-term memory system; Hierarchically based temporal organization; Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; 3 Identity, emotion, and the social matrix of autobiographical memory: a psychoanalytic narrative view.
  • Motivation, identity, and narrative: the life storyCognitive models of normal autobiographical memory; Psychoanalytic models of motivated distortions of autobiographical memory: narrative versus historical truth; The life story; From action to perception to narrative of a past experience: the role of emotion; Reconstructing memories in psychoanalytic therapy; Coping and the transformation of narrative form; The social matrix of autobiographical memory; Infantile attachment patterns; The present relationship; Past social rememberings; Conclusion; References.
  • 4 On the nature of autobiographical memoryNature of autobiographical memory; Autobiographical memory and culture; Episodic memories and culture; Summary; References; 5 Reflections on autobiographical memory; Labels and definitions; Flashbulb memory; Eyewitness testimony; False memory; Mental time travel; Theory; Reminiscence bump; Memory and emotion; Some new directions; Accelerated long-term forgetting; A remarkable memory; Letters from the past; Conclusions; References; Part II Neural studies of autobiographical memory.
  • 6 The contribution of research on autobiographical memory to past and present theories of memory consolidationThe turn of the twentieth century; Mid-twentieth century: the discovery of the medial temporal lobe's role in memory; The turn of the twenty-first century; The nature of hippocampal and extra-hippocampal representations; Implications of the nature of hippocampal representations for theories of systems consolidation; The contribution of studies on autobiographical memory to theories of systems consolidation; Microanalysis of autobiographical memory.