Overview
- Brings together current perspectives on autobiographical memory from multiple sub-disciplines
- Details the birth and the historical development of the psychology of autobiographical memory
- Provides a rigorous critical overview of theoretical and empirical issues in the field
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- memory and emotion
- memory and the law
- autobiographical narrative
- Francis Galton
- Involuntary autobiographical memories
- Victor and Catherine Henri
- Sigmund Freud
- Ulric Neisser
- Eyewitness memory
- Self-Memory System model
- autobiographical memory network
- Flashbulb memories
- Ontogenetic
- Neural correlates
- neurological disorders
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Reviews
— David Rubin, Duke University, USA
“This book is refreshing in contextualizing this contemporary field in its 140-year history. Readers are guided down a fascinating path to explore the intellectual evolution of humans’ obsession with their personal pasts. By presenting a comprehensive overview of both pioneering and current research, Sotgiu provides a carefully reasoned exploration of the intricacies of recalling and sharing the early, happy, meaningfuland difficult events that make up a life.”
— Susan Bluck, University of Florida, USA
"We all have an autobiographical memory which is like a spine to our subjective life. And yet, we ignore how it develops, how it works and what it does. This book tells us what scientific research has discovered about it. Rigorous, clear and pleasant to read, the volume also offers us a model of effective communication of science."
— Bernard Rimé, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychology of Autobiographical Memory
Book Subtitle: History, Theory, Research
Authors: Igor Sotgiu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69571-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69570-5Published: 13 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69573-6Published: 14 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69571-2Published: 12 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 176
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, History of Psychology, Psychology, general, Neurosciences, Personality and Social Psychology