The Act of Remembering Toward an

The first volume devoted solely to autobiographical memory retrieval, The Act of Remembering serves as a primer of ideas, methodology, and central topics, and lays the groundwork for future research in the field.- Contains new, forward-looking theories from leading international scholars - Answers questions such as: Do we retrieve memories according to when and where we need them? How much conscious control do we have over what we remember? Why are some people more likely than others to have intrusive 'flashbacks' following a stressful event? - Pays particular attention to voluntary and involuntary recall

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).

Preface
Contributors
Introduction
The act of remembering the past: An overview
From diaries to brain scans: Methodological developments in the investigation of autobiographical memory
Theories and Reviews of Involuntary and Voluntary Remembering
Involuntary remembering and voluntary remembering: How different are they?
Accessing autobiographical memories
Involuntary and voluntary memory sequencing phenomena: An interesting puzzle for the study of autobiographical memory organization and retrieval
Spontaneous retrieval is the norm: What integrative models tell us about human consciousness and memory
Priming, automatic recollection, and control of retrieval: Toward an integrative retrieval architecture
Broader Issues in the Science of Remembering
Understanding autobiographical remembering from a spreading activation perspective
Retrieval Inhibition in Autobiographical Memory
The role of visual perspective in autobiographical memory retrieval
The emergence of recollection: How we learn to recall ourselves in the past
You get what you need: The psychosocial functions of remembering
Theories of Abnormal Remembering
Exploring pathological recall in involuntary retrieval in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder from an information processing perspective: Intrusive images of trauma
Unwanted traumatic intrusions: The role of pre-trauma individual differences in executive control
The content, nature and persistence of intrusive memories in depression
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The Act of Remembering Toward an Understanding of How We Recall the Past

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