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Record Nr.

UNINA9910878090903321

Titolo

Involuntary memory / / edited by John H. Mace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2007

ISBN

1-280-93258-9

9786610932580

0-470-77406-1

1-4051-8214-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

New perspectives in cognitive psychology

Altri autori (Persone)

MaceJohn H

Disciplina

153.1/3

Soggetti

Involuntary memory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Involuntary memory : concept and theory / John H. Mace -- Involuntary autobiographical memories : speculations, findings and an attempt to integrate them / Dorthe Berntsen -- Does involuntary remembering occur during voluntary remembering? / John H. Mace -- The role of involuntary memories in posttraumatic disorder and psychosis / Craig Steel and Emily A. Holmes -- Effects of age on involuntary autobiographical memories / Simone Schlagman, Lia Kvavilashvili & Joerg Schulz -- Cues to the gusts of memory / Christopher T. Ball, John H. Mace, and Hercilia Corona -- Can we elicit involuntary autobiographical memories in the laboratory? / Christopher T. Ball -- Interaction between retrieval intentionality and emotional intensity :  investigating the neural correlates of experimentally induced involuntary memories / Nicoline M. Hall -- How deliberate, spontaneous and unwanted memories emerge in a computational model of consciousness / Bernard J. Baars, Uma Ramamurthy, and Stan Franklin -- Three variations of the unexpected / George Mandler.

Sommario/riassunto

Involuntary memory was identified by the pioneering memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus more than a century ago, but it was not until very recently that cognitive psychologists began to study this memory phenomenon. This book is the first to examine key topics and cutting-edge research in involuntary memory.Discusses topics such as



involuntary memories in everyday life, across the life-span, and in the laboratory; the special ways in which involuntary memories sometimes manifest themselves and a number of theoretical treatments of the topic. Presents innovative researc