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*Hermans, D Raes, F Philippot, P Kremers,I(2006)(eds) Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Psychopathology. A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion. ISBN 184169987X
 
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*Dalgleish,Tim & ABrewin, Chris ( 2007)(eds) Autobiographical Memory and Emotional Disorder-A special issue of the journal Memory. Psychology Press ISBN 978-1-84169-833-5
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Autobiographic memory is a major research area within cognitive science which is itself a movement in psychology. An autobiographical memory is a personal representation of general or specific events and personal facts.

Types

  • Specific Events
  • When one first stepped foot in the ocean. On a family trip to California.
  • General Events
  • What it is like stepping into the ocean for oneself generally. This is a memory of what a personal event is generally like. One might have based it on the memories of having stepped in the ocean, many times during the years one lived in California.
  • Personal Facts
  • "Who was the Prime Minister of Canada when I was born?"
  • Flash Bulb Memories
  • Flash Bulb memories are critical Autobiographical Memories about a major event. Some flash bulb memories are shared within a social group and today, much of humanity.
"Where were you on 9/11?"
"The assassination of John Kennedy?"
"The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?"
"The Challenger explosion?"
"The verdict in the OJ Simpson trial?"

See also

Bibliography

Key Texts – Books

  • Hermans, D Raes, F Philippot, P Kremers,I(2006)(eds) Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Psychopathology. A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion. ISBN 184169987X
  • Dalgleish,Tim & ABrewin, Chris ( 2007)(eds) Autobiographical Memory and Emotional Disorder-A special issue of the journal Memory. Psychology Press ISBN 978-1-84169-833-5

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Additional material – Books

Key Texts – Papers

  • Harley, K and Reese, E. (1999) 'Origins of Autobiographical Memory', Developmental Psychology 35, 1338-1348.
  • Howe, M.L. and Courage, M.L. (1997). 'The Emergence and Development of Autobiographical Memory', Psychological Review 104, 499-523
  • Mullen, M.K. and Yi, Soonhyung (1995). 'The Cultural Context of Talk about the Past: implications for the development of autobiographical memory', Cognitive Development 10, 407-419.
  • Nelson, K.(1993). 'The Psychological and Social Origins of Autobiographical Memory', Psychological Science 4, 7-14.
  • Singer, J A & Bluck, S (2001). Autobiographical Memory.Review of General Psychology.Volume 5, #2, June. Special Issue
  • Sutton,J. (2002)'Cognitive Conceptions of Language and the Development of Autobiographical Memory', Language and Communication 22, 375-390.
  • Welch-Ross, Melissa (1995). 'An Integrative Model of the Development of Autobiographical Memory', Developmental Review 15, 338-365.

Additional material - Papers

  • Conway, M.A. & Pleydell-Pearce, C.W. (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Psychological Review, 107, 261-288. Full text
  • Klein, S., German, T., Cosmides, L. & Gabriel, R. (2004). A theory of autobiographical memory: Necessary components and disorders resulting from their loss. Social Cognition, 22, 460-490. Full text

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Neuroanatomy of memory
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