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By Elke Geraerts, Marko Jelicic
February 28, 2008
How people remember – and forget – traumatic experiences is a highly controversial issue in psychiatry and psychology. At the moment, the field of trauma and memory is dominated by several controversies (for a review, see Brewin, 2007). The purpose of this special issue is to highlight studies ...
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By Catherine Loveday, Martin A. Conway
October 25, 2011
First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
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By Chris Moulin, Moshe Naveh-Benjamin, Celine Souchay
March 24, 2009
A characteristic feature of the aging process is a decline in episodic memory, that form of memory related to a particular time and place in an individual’s personal history. This volume gathers together articles by leaders in the field exploring aging and episodic memory in healthy adults. These ...
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By James Michael Lampinen, Timothy N. Odegard
August 03, 2006
This special issue of Memory is devoted to an investigation of those mechanisms by which memory is edited for inaccuracies and inconsistencies. In the past 20 years false memories have been investigated from a variety of different angles. Substantial evidence indicates that false memories can be ...
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By Tim Dalgleish, Chris Brewin
June 07, 2007
For those suffering from emotional disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression aspects of the personal past can dominate conscious experience in tenacious and toxic ways. For example, memories of distressing autobiographical experiences can intrude into awareness as ...
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By Emily A. Holmes, Ann Hackmann
July 08, 2004
This Special Issue presents a series of novel studies of imagery and its relationship to memory, in a wide range of psychological disorders....
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By Ulrich Hoffrage, Rüdiger Pohl
August 07, 2003
With hindsight, we tend to exaggerate what we had known with foresight. This phenomenon can be observed in a memory design in which previous judgements have to be recalled after outcome information has been made available, or in a hypothetical design in which participants receive outcome ...
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By Susan Bluck
April 10, 2003
This special issue of the Psychology Press journal Memory spotlights and aims to encourage 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, ...
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By Martin A. Conway
November 14, 2002
This special issue of the journal Memory celebrates thirty years of research into the levels of processing (LoP) framework. Evaluations are provided by leading researchers, including the original proposers, Craik and Lockhart. In addition new findings are reported and extensions of, as well as ...
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By Susan Gathercole
September 20, 2001
This special issue ponders a detailed and contemporary analysis of the theoretical underpinnings of short-term and working memory. Articles focus on short-term memory for phonological, semantic, and spatial material, on executive function and on short-term forgetting. The empirical perspectives ...
By Rosaleen A. McCarthy
October 31, 1995
What is the basis of our ability to assign meanings to words or to objects? Such questions have, until recently, been regarded as lying within the province of philosophy and linguistics rather than psychology. However, recent advances in psychology and neuropsychology have led to the development of...
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By Deborah M. Burke, Gillian Cohen
January 26, 1994
A growing body of research suggests that there is a specific cognitive deficit in the retrieval of proper names as compared with the retrieval of object names and other words. This special issue brings together studies that analyse the nature of retrieval failure for proper names and evaluate ...