Description
The Handbook of Autobiographical Memory: From Basic to Applied Perspectives offers a comprehensive view on autobiographical memory from a multidisciplinary approach. The book explores contemporary advances in understanding both cognitive and neural processes, including historical contexts on autobiographical memory theory and assessment. The book further synthesizes insights from cognitive, developmental, and social aspects of autobiographical functioning while also covering departures from norms in terms of autobiographical memory dysfunction. A section on applications equips readers with essential information regarding the assessment and detection of autobiographical memory dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric populations. How such processes evolve over the lifespan, and how deviations from healthy memory function can be supported through novel rehabilitation practices are also covered.- Offers a comprehensive overview of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying autobiographical memory- Reviews current assessment approaches to autobiographical memory- Analyzes autobiographical memory and its implications for clinical rehabilitation
Table of Contents
1. Sociocultural developmental perspectives on autobiographical memory2. Autobiographical memory development in context3. Autobiographical representations at multiple time scales4. The shape of autobiographical memory: factors influencing the encoding and retrieval of personal events across the life span5. Transition Theory and the Living-in-History project: an overview and extensions6. Self-defining memories in the self and psychological disorders: critical review and methodological recommendations7. Contribution of past and future self-defining events to explore personal identity throughout adulthood8. The life story: a frame for remembering past experiences9. No memory, no story: autobiographical memory as foundational to the life story10. Curating the self through music11. When memory meets attention: multiple roles for attention in spontaneous retrieval of autobiographical memories12. Unraveling autobiographical memory retrieval: processes and phenomenology13. Emotional autobiographical memory14. Individual differences in the experience of autobiographical memories15. Collaborative construction of autobiographical memory16. Socially entwined memories and their neuroanatomical basis17. False memories, iatrogenesis, and social contagions18. Autobiographical memory in the courtroom: the contribution of flashbulb memories studies19. Neural substrates of autobiographical memory and future thinking20. New directions in mental time travel research: Understanding the ways future thinking can be applied to real-world challenges21. The cognitive neuroscience of episodic counterfactual thinking22. Autobiographical memory in virtual reality: bridging ecological validity and experimental control23. Overgeneral autobiographical memory and psychopathology: features, causes, and interventions24. Emotional mechanisms underlying autobiographical recall in addictive behaviors25. An adaptive perspective on autobiographical memory sparing and loss in later life: lessons from typical healthy aging and dementia26. Medial temporal lobe amnesia27. Autobiographical memory and self-awareness in neuropsychiatric conditions28. Self in recent onset schizophrenia: clinical and theoretical considerations29. Narrative identity and recovery in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorder
