Seeing Where We're At: A Review of Visual Perspective and Memory Retrieval

The Act of Remembering: Toward an Understanding of How We Recall the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 228-258

  Rice, Heather J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional intensity, emotional valence and visual perspective; Nigro and Neisser (1983), terms for two distinct categories of perspective; Research investigating use of visual perspective in memory retrieval after long period of neglect; Role of perspective in autobiographical memory perspective, emotion, self related processing, temporal distance and vividness; Role of visual perspective in retrieval important to more applied issues; Seeing Where We're At review of visual perspective and memory retrieval; Self awareness, self concept and visual perspective; Temporal distance, vividness, constructive processes and visual perspective; Visual imagery, integral to retrieval of autobiographical memories; Visual perspective, during autobiographical memory retrieval as cognitive strategy

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EID: 80051670896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328202.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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