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- Title
The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.
- Authors
Conway, M A; Pleydell-Pearce, C W
- Abstract
The authors describe a model of autobiographical memory in which memories are transitory mental constructions within a self-memory system (SMS). The SMS contains an autobiographical knowledge base and current goals of the working self. Within the SMS, control processes modulate access to the knowledge base by successively shaping cues used to activate autobiographical memory knowledge structures and, in this way, form specific memories. The relation of the knowledge base to active goals is reciprocal, and the knowledge base "grounds" the goals of the working self. It is shown how this model can be used to draw together a wide range of diverse data from cognitive, social, developmental, personality, clinical, and neuropsychological autobiographical memory research.
- Publication
Psychological review, 2000, Vol 107, Issue 2, p261
- ISSN
0033-295X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0033-295x.107.2.261