The Dynamics Of Autobiographical Memory
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The Dynamics of Autobiographical Memory
"An outstanding contribution to the study of autobiographical memories over the lifespan through a new and promising assessment method and an important methodological contribution to the study of aging." Rorio Femandez-Ballesteros, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain --Book Jacket.
The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture
This book traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of the autobiographical self - the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the family and the community. It combines rigorous research, compelling theoretical insights, sensitive survey of real memories and memory conversations, and fascinating personal anecdotes to convey a message: the autobiographical self is conditioned by one's time and culture.
Philosophy and Memory Traces
Author: John Sutton
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1998-03-05
Philosophy and Memory Traces defends two theories of autobiographical memory. One is a bewildering historical view of memories as dynamic patterns in fleeting animal spirits, nervous fluids which rummaged through the pores of brain and body. The other is new connectionism, in which memories are 'stored' only superpositionally, and reconstructed rather than reproduced. Both models, argues John Sutton, depart from static archival metaphors by employing distributed representation, which brings interference and confusion between memory traces. Both raise urgent issues about control of the personal past, and about relations between self and body. Sutton demonstrates the role of bizarre body fluids in moral physiology, as philosophers from Descartes and Locke to Coleridge struggled to control their own innards and impose cognitive discipline on 'the phantasmal chaos of association'. Going on to defend connectionism against Fodor and critics of passive mental representations, he shows how problems of the self are implicated in cognitive science.