Mace The Act of Remembering

Toward an Understanding of How We Recall the Past
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5171-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Perspectives in Cognitive Psychology

The first volume devoted solely to autobiographical memoryretrieval, The Act of Remembering serves as a primer ofideas, methodology, and central topics, and lays the groundwork forfuture research in the field.
* Contains new, forward-looking theories from leadinginternational scholars
* Answers questions such as: Do we retrieve memories according towhen and where we need them? How much conscious control do we haveover what we remember? Why are some people more likely than othersto have intrusive 'flashbacks' following a stressfulevent?
* Pays particular attention to voluntary and involuntaryrecall

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mace, John H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Contributors.
Part I: Introduction.
1. The act of remembering the past: An overview (John H.Mace, Eastern Illinois University).
2. From diaries to brain scans: Methodological developments inthe investigation of autobiographical memory (Christopher Ball,College of William & Mary).
Part II: Theories and Reviews of Involuntary and VoluntaryRemembering.
3. Involuntary remembering and voluntary remembering: Howdifferent are they? (John H. Mace, Eastern IllinoisUniversity).
4. Accessing autobiographical memories (Martin Conway,University of Leeds, and Catherine Loveday, University ofWestminster).
5. Involuntary and voluntary memory sequencing phenomena: Aninteresting puzzle for the study of autobiographical memoryorganization and retrieval (Jennifer Talarico, LafayetteCollege, and John H. Mace, Eastern Illinois University).
6. Spontaneous retrieval is the norm: What integrative modelstell us about human consciousness and memory (Stan Franklin,University of Memphis, and Bernard J. Baars, The NeurosciencesInstitute).
7. Priming, automatic recollection, and control of retrieval:Toward an integrative retrieval architecture (AlanRichardson-Klavehn, Otto von Guericke University).
Part III: Broader Issues in the Science ofRemembering.
8. Understanding autobiographical remembering from a spreadingactivation perspective (John H. Mace, Eastern IllinoisUniversity)
9. Retrieval Inhibition in Autobiographical Memory (BernhardPastötter and Karl-Heinz Bäuml).
10. The role of visual perspective in autobiographical memoryretrieval (Heather J. Rice, Washington University in St.Louis).
11. The emergence of recollection: How we learn to recallourselves in the past (Robyn Fivush and Patricia J. Bauer, EmoryUniversity).
12. You get what you need: The psychosocial functions ofremembering (Susan Bluck, University of Florida, Nicole Alea,University of the West Indies, and Burcu Demiray, University ofFlorida).
Part IV: Theories of Abnormal Remembering.
13. Exploring pathological recall in involuntary retrieval inPost-traumatic Stress Disorder from an information processingperspective: Intrusive images of trauma (Julie Krans, RadboudUniversity, Marcella L. Woud, Radboud University, GérardNäring, Radboud University, Eni S. Becker, Radboud University,and Emily A. Holmes, Warneford Hospital).
14. Unwanted traumatic intrusions: The role of pre-traumaindividual differences in executive control (Johan Verwoerd andIneke Wessel, University of Groningen).
15. The content, nature and persistence of intrusive memories indepression (Alishia D. Williams and Michelle L. Moulds,University of New South Wales).

Über Autor(innen)

John H. Mace is a cognitive psychologist who specializes in the study of memory. He is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Eastern Illinois University, and author of Involuntary Memory (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).