Accessing Autobiographical Memories

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 56-70

  Conway, Martin A ^a   Loveday, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessing autobiographical memories; Accessing information in long term memory; Autobiographical knowledge structure; Autobiographical memory, mental construction across knowledge structures; Direct retrieval, underlying involuntary recollection cue being endogenous; Effect of cue, activation in long term memory specific item of knowledge; Episodic knowledge, not becoming integrated accessed by a cue; Generative retrieval and direct retrieval with a cue; Intentional recall, faster memory system in retrieval mode; Intentionally retrieving memories effortful cognitive process taking seconds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861423430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328202.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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