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Physics of Life Reviews, 2010
Understanding human life, 2022
Whenever we face a new problem, we recall the similar ones we encountered in the past, so we try to solve it with all the information available to us. Memory therefore serves to reveal our life story. This requires us to take a closer look at how memory plays such a role, and at the scientific methods used to demonstrate it. In his 1879 article on “Psychometric experiments,” Galton paved the way for such scientific study. His work made it possible to develop more satisfactory psychological approaches to the recollection of past events. By contrast, his approach to visual memory (1880) yielded far more questionable results. Examining the various psychological approaches to memory, we show that it was almost a century later that the cognitive approach to psychology took up these earlier studies to provide information on autobiographical memory. In particular, the problem of memory failures is critical for the use of autobiographical memory in a number of social sciences. Other approaches are possible, however. They were developed most notably by neuroscience and psychoanalysis, two sharply contrasting disciplines born at nearly the same time. Despite their differences, both approaches are based on the study of nervous diseases. We shall describe their points of convergence and, at the same time, the reasons for their incompatibility. We conclude with the replication crisis that has confronted psychology more recently and with the means to resolve it.
Memory. Special issue on the nature of human memory, 2021
While the role of emotion in autobiographical memory (ABM) is acknowledged in some models, its specific effects are blurred by narrow approaches towards emotion that are often limited to a distinction between intensity and valence. After presenting a critical review of the role assigned to emotion for the development of ABM, this paper surveys current perspectives which encourage a broader approach to emotion in the development of ABM. Research on Flashbulb memories provides an important context where the role of emotion has been the most extensively investigated. This paper makes three important recommendations for future research, which are to (1) provide an assessment of emotional responses that includes appraisals, action tendencies, bodily sensations, and emotion intensity; (2) investigate the role of specific emotional states; and (3) adopt systematically a multi-component approach of ABM measurement, which takes accuracy, consistency, vividness, degree of details, and confidence into account.
The Emotion Researcher, 2021
Pre-theoretically, it seems obvious that there are deep and multifarious relations between memory and emotions. On the one hand, a large chunk of our affective lives concerns the good and bad events that happened to us and that we preserve in memory. This is one amongst the many ways in which memory is relevant to the nature and causation of emotions. What does recent research teach us about these relations? § 1 surveys some key issues in this regard. On the other hand, which events we happen to preserve in memory very much depends on how we affectively reacted to them when they took place. Emotions are relevant to the nature and causation of memory in this and many other ways. Key issues regarding these relations are surveyed in § 2.
Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 2010
Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=28420658008 ... Redalyc Scientific Information System Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and ... Phenomenal Qualities of Autobiographical Memories in an ...
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1993
2012
The field of autobiographical memory has made dramatic advances since the first collection of papers in the area was published in 1986. Now, over 25 years on, this book reviews and integrates the many theories, perspectives, and approaches that have evolved over the last decades. A truly eminent collection of editors and contributors appraise the basic neural systems of autobiographical memory; its underlying cognitive structures and retrieval processes; how it develops in infancy and childhood, and then breaks down in aging; its social and cultural aspects; and its relation to personality and the self. Autobiographical memory has demonstrated a strong ability to establish clear empirical generalizations, and has shown its practical relevance by deepening our understanding of several clinical disorders - as well as the induction of false memories in the legal system. It has also become an important topic for brain studies, and helped to enlarge our general understanding of the brain.
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
Contemporary reformulations of the nature of “the psychological” call out for different approaches to autobiographical memory. If epistemic and methodological differences are set aside, debate can be focused on four key themes—function, accessibility, accuracy, and life story. What persons do with memory needs to be indexed to the interactional contexts where the past is invoked, where the accessibility of autobiographical memories is a collaborative accomplishment. While the accuracy of memory is nearly always at issue, the criterion and procedures through which it is established vary across practices, as do capacities to produce biographical coherency. An “expanded” or “modern” view of memory should seek to analyze brains, voices, objects, and settings together.
Ge-conservacion, 2023
East African journal of business and economics, 2024
Sustainable Water Resources Management, 2019
Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine, 2017
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 2004
Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2024
Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture, 2007
The Antiquaries Journal, 1963