Experts

Parker, E., Cahill, L., & McGaugh, J. (2006). A case of unusual autobiographical remembering. Neurocase,12, 35-49.

Schmidt, Henk G., Boshuizen, Henny P.A. & van Breukelen, Gerard J.P. (2002). Long-term retention of a theatrical script by repertory actors: The role of context. Memory, 10, 21-29.

Expertise

Neisser,U. (1982). Memorists. In U. Neisser & I. E. Hyman (eds.) Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts. (pp. 476-478). New York: Worth Publishers.

Luria, A.R. (1968). The mind of mnemonist. In U. Neisser & I. E. Hyman (eds.) Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts. (pp. 479-486). New York: Worth Publishers.

Hunt, E. & Love, T. (1972). The second mnemonist. In U. Neisser & I. E. Hyman (eds.) Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts. (pp. 487-495). New York: Worth Publishers.

Thompson, C., Cowan, T., Frieman, J., Mahadevan, R., Vogl, R., & Frieman, J. (1991). Rajan, Master of Pi. In U. Neisser & I. E. Hyman (eds.) Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts. (pp. 496-501). New York: Worth Publishers.   

Psychosis

Kalbe, E., Brand, M., Thiel, A., Kessler, J., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2008). Neuropsychological and neural correlates of autobiographical deficits in a mother who killed her children. Neurocase, 14, 15-28.

Baddeley, A., Thornton, A., Chua, S.E., & McKenna, P. (1996). Remembering our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory (pp. 244-267). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 327-428.

I thought the questions and responses that came up during class last night were quite interesting, especially around issues of choice and happiness.  I was pleased and surprised to see that the next episode of Radiolab is dedicated to just this topic, and include interviews with Malcolm Gladwell (New Yorker Magazine), John Bargh (social psychologist, Yale), Oliver Sacks (Neurologist, Columbia), Barry Schwartz (social/cognitive psychologist, Swarthmore), and Antoine Bechara (Neuroscientist, USC).  I highly recommend listening to it, and would like to hear your reactions on Tuesday.    

CHOICE

We turn up the volume on the voices in our heads and try to make sense of the babble. On a journey around the country to understand how emotion and logic interact to guide us through our options, we ponder how we get through the million choices and decisions we make every day. Forget free will, some important decisions could come down to a steaming cup of coffee.

Depression and Anxiety

Williams, J. M. G. (1996). Depression and the specificity of autobiographical memory. In D. C. Rubin (Ed.), Remembering our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory (pp. 244-267). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Edwards, S. L., Rapee, R. M., & Franklin, J. (2003). Postevent rumination and recall bias for a social performance event in high and low socially anxious individuals. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 27, 603-617.

Wenzel, A., & Cochran, C. K. (2006). Autobiographical memories prompted by automatic thoughts in panic disorder and social phobia. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 35, 129-137.

Alien Confirmation

http://news.aol.com/article/astronaut-says-aliens-have-visited-earth/437766?icid=mainaimdl1link3http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fastronaut-says-aliens-have-visited-earth%2F437766

Unusual Autobiographical Memories: Abducted

Clancy, S.A. (2005). How people come to believe they were kidnapped by space aliens. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapters 4-6

Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory

Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory

Soldiers' Stress: What Doctors Get Wrong About PTSD. Scientific American. April, 2009.

Unusual Autobiographical Memories

April 16: Unusual Autobiographical Memories: Abducted

Clancy, S.A. (2005). How people come to believe they were kidnapped by space aliens. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapters 1-3

Traumatic Memory

McNally, R.J. (2003). Remembering Trauma. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapters 7-10.

Amy Sodaro's talk

Traumatic Memory

McNally, R.J. (2003). Remembering Trauma. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapters 5-6.

Traumatic Memory

McNally, R.J. (2003). Remembering Trauma. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapters 1-4.

Emotion and 9/11

Talarico, J.M. & Rubin. D. (2003). Confidence, not consistency, characterize flashbulb memories. Psychological Science, 14, 445-502.

Hirst, W. & Meksin, R. (2008). A social-interactionist approach to the retention of collective memories of flashbulb events. In: O. Luminet & A. Curci (Eds.). Flashbulb Memories: New Issues and New Perspectives. Psychology Press.

Sharot, T. Martorella, E.A., Delgado, M.R., Phelps, E.A. (2007). How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11. PNAS, 104, 389-394.

Cohen, M., Mehl, M., & Pennebaker, J. (2004). Linguistic Markers of Psychological Change Surrounding September 11, 2001, Psychological Science.

Emotion and Autobiographical Memory

Schacter, D.L. (1996). Emotional memories: When the past persists. Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past. Chapter 7.

Cahill, L., Babinsky,R., Markowitsch, H., & McGaugh, J. L. (1995). The amygdala and emotional memory. Nature, 377, 295 – 296.

Levine, L., & Pizarro, D. (2004). Emotion and Memory Research: A Grumpy Overview. Social Cognition, 22, 530-554.

Brown, R., & Kulik, J. (1977). Flashbulb memories. Cognition, 5, 73-79. In: U. Neisser & I. E. Hyman (eds.) Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts. (pp. 50-65). New York: Worth Publishers.

False Confessions

Wright, L. (1993). Remembering Satan. New Yorker Magazine.

Memory Distortion

Ikier, S., Tekcan, A.I., Guelgoez, S., & Kuentay, A. (2003). Whose life is it anyway? Adoption of each other’s autobiographical memories by twins. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 237-247.

Abe, N., et al. (2008). Neural correlates of true memory, false memory, and deception. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2811-2819

A new case of dissociative fugue?

Did anyone else read this article in the Sunday Times? Fascinating story about a women who disappeared as a result of dissociative fugue for three weeks this past summer. Interesting to compare with Unknown White Male.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/nyregion/thecity/01miss.html?scp=1&sq=fugue&st=cse

Memory Distortion

Ceci, S.J. & Bronk. M. (1993). Suggestibility of the child witness: A historical review and synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 113, 403-439.


Lindsay, D.S., Hagen, L., Read, J.D., Wade, K.A., & Garry, M. (2004). True photographs and false memory. Psychological Science, 15, 149-154.


Belli, R., & Loftus, E. (1996). The pliability of autobiographical memory: Misinformation and the false memory problem. In: D.C. Rubin (ed.) Remembering our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory. (pp. 157-179). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Emergence of Autobiographical Memory II

Mullen. M. (1994). Earliest recollections of childhood: A demographic analysis. Cognition, 52, 55-79.

Harpaz-Rotem, I. & Hirst, W. (2005). The earliest memory in individuals raised in either traditional and reformed kibbutz or outside the kibbutz. Memory, 13, 51-62.

Wang, Qi (2004). The emergence of cultural self-constructs: Autobiographical memory and self-description in European American and Chinese children. Developmental Psychology, 40, 3 –15.