Autobiographical Memory

✍ Scribed by David C. Rubin (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Rubin brings together and integrates the best contemporary work on the cognitive psychology of memories of the self. Autobiographical memory is the basis for 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. Introductory chapters place the study of autobiographical memory in its historical, methodological, and theoretical contexts. Later chapters report original research concerning the recollections people have of substanial portions of their lives. Topics include the schematic and temporal organization of autobiographical memory, the temporal distribution of autobiographical memories, and failures of autobiographical memory in various forms of amnesia.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Part I - Overview......Page 11
I - Introduction......Page 13
Part II - Historical, theoretical, and methodological contexts for the study of autobiographical memory......Page 27
2 - Autobiographical memory: a historical prologue......Page 29
3 - What is autobiographical memory?......Page 35
4 - Ways of searching and the contents of memory......Page 60
Part III - The general organization of autobiographical memory......Page 79
5 - Nested structure in autobiographical memory......Page 81
6 - Schematization of autobiographical memory......Page 92
7 - Strategic memory search processes......Page 110
8 - Autobiographical memory: a developmental perspective......Page 132
Part IV - The temporal organization of autobiographical memory......Page 145
9 - Public memories and their personal context......Page 147
10 - Temporal reference systems and autobiographical memory......Page 169
Part V - Temporal distributions of autobiographical memories......Page 199
11 - Childhood amnesia: an empirical demonstration......Page 201
12 - Autobiographical memory across the lifespan......Page 212
Part VI - Failures of autobiographical memory......Page 233
13 - Amnesia, autobiographical memory, and confabulation......Page 235
14 - A case study of the forgetting of autobiographical knowledge: implications for the study of retrograde amnesia......Page 263
15 - Loss and recovery of autobiographical memory after head injury......Page 283
Author index......Page 301
Subject index......Page 307