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| Research article summary (published 27 Feb 2003): |
Autobiographical memory: exploring its functions in everyday life.
Full Abstract
This special issue of Memory spotlights research that uses a functional approach to investigate autobiographical memory (AM) in everyday life. This approach relies on studying cognition, in this case AM, taking into account the psychological, social, or cultural-historic context in which it occurs. Areas of interest include understanding to what ends AM is used by individuals and in social relationships, how it is related to other cognitive abilities and emotional states, and how memory represents our inner and outer world. One insight gained by taking this approach is that levels and types of accuracy need not always be regarded as memory "failures" but are sometimes integral to a self-memory system that serves a variety of meaningful ends of human activity. Previously hypothesised functions of AM fall into three broad domains:
self, social, and directive. Each of the contributions addresses how AM serves one or more of these functions and thereby examines the usefulness and adequacy of this trio.
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Author information
Author/s: Bluck, Susan (S);
Affiliation: Institute on Aging, Psychology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-5911, USA. bluck@ufl.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Review
Journal: Memory (Hove, England) (Memory), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 11 (issue 2) : pp 113-23
Dates: Created 2003/06/24; Completed 2003/09/09; Revised 2005/11/16;
PMID: 12820825, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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