Autobiographical memory / edited by David C. Rubin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubin, David C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiographical memory.

Physical Description:

ix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Summary:

Autobiographical memory is a major form of human memory. It is the basis of most psychotherapies, an important repository of legal, historical, and literary information, and, in some views, the source of the concept of self. When it fails, it is the focus of serious complaints in many neurological disorders.

This timely book brings together and integrates the best contemporary work on the cognitive psychology of autobiographical memory. Introductory chapters place the study of autobiographical memory in its historical, methodological, and theoretical contexts; chapters reporting original research probe the recollections people have for substantial portions of their lives. Topics include the schematic and temporal organization of autobiographical memory, the temporal distribution of autobiographical memories, and the failures of autobigraphical memory in various forms of amnesia.

Autobiographical Memory constitutes the first tutorial in this exciting new area of research. Cognitive psychologists, clinicians, researchers in artificial intelligence, and their students -- indeed, anyone interested in the processes that preserve and distort autobiography -- will find it a useful resource.

Contents:

Part II Historical, theoretical, and methodological contexts for the study of autobiographical memory

2 Autobiographical memory: a historical prologue / John A. Robinson 19

3 What is autobiographical memory? / William F. Brewer 25

4 Ways of searching and the contents of memory / Marigold Linton 50

Part III The general organization of autobiographical memory

5 Nested structure in autobiographical memory / Ulric Neisser 71

6 Schematization of autobiographical memory / Craig R. Barclay 82

7 Strategic memory search processes / Brian J. Reiser, John B. Black, Peter Kalamarides 100

8 Autobiographical memory: a developmental perspective / Joseph M. Fitzgerald 122

Part IV The temporal organization of autobiographical memory

9 Public memories and their personal context / Norman R. Brown, Steven K. Shevell, Lance J. Rips 137

10 Temporal reference systems and autobiographical memory / John A. Robinson 159

Part V Temporal distributions of autobiographical memories

11 Childhood amnesia: an empirical demonstration / Scott E. Wetzler, John A. Sweeney 191

12 Autobiographical memory across the lifespan / David C. Rubin, Scott E. Wetzler, Robert D. Nebes 202

Part VI Failures of autobiographical memory

13 Amnesia, autobiographical memory, and confabulation / Alan Baddeley, Barbara Wilson 225

14 A case study of the forgetting of autobiographical knowledge: implications for the study of retrograde amnesia / Nelson Butters, Laird S. Cermak 253

15 Loss and recovery of autobiographical memory after head injury / Herbert F. Crovitz 273.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0521368502

OCLC:

21935074