Remembering Reconsidered
Remembering Reconsidered
Eugene Winograd
In Remembering Reconsidered, the new ecologically oriented study of memory makes contact with more traditional approaches. The emerging result may be what several of the authors have begun to call 'functionalism': a concern with the adaptive significance of memory in ordinary life coupled with a careful analysis of the variables on which it depends. In different ways, the chapters reflect this concern. The editors bring together a diverse collection of studies on remembering, using subjects ranging from folk songs to 'crib talk'. Introductory chapters weave these themes together, developing an underlying sense of the project of the volume as a whole. This is the second volume in the Emory Symposia on Cognition. The Emory Cognition Project, directed by Ulric Neisser, emphasizes an ecological approach to problems in theoretical, experimental, and applied cognitive psychology.
Reviews & endorsements
"The contributions to Remembering Reconsidered are of uniformly high quality and contain a wealth of new facts about manifestations of memory in various real-world contexts; they also provide provocative discussions of methodological, conceptual, and theoretical issues." Science
"...provides a representative look at memory research in the mid-1980s by its examination of recurring themes and concepts and of both traditional and ecological data collection procedures. Consequently the book could easily be used within a seminar-based course....The goal of the conference and the book was to stimulate a reconsideration of remembering. Whereas a book cannot substitute for conference attendance, it meets this goal well." Applied Cognitive Psychology
Product details
January 1995Paperback
9780521485005
404 pages
229 × 153 × 21 mm
0.551kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. New vistas in the study of memory Ulric Neisser
- 2. Continuities between ecological and laboratory approaches to memory Eugene Winograd
- 3. Memory for randomly sampled autobiographical events William F. Brewer
- 4. Ordinary everyday memories: Some of the things of which selves are made Craig R. Barclay and Peggy A. DeCooke
- 5. Walking in our own footsteps: Autobiographical memory and reconstruction Robert N. McCauley
- 6. Memory observed and memory unobserved Larry L. Jacoby
- 7. The maintenance of marginal knowledge Harry P. Bahrick and Elizabeth Phelps
- 8. The content and organization of autobiographical memories Lawrence W. Barsalou
- 9. The ontogeny of memory for real events Katherine Nelson
- 10. The functions of event memory: Some comments on Nelson and Barsalou Robyn Fivush
- 11. 'The Wreck of the Old 97': A real event remembered in song Wanda T. Wallace and David C. Rubin
- 12. Passive remembering Donald P. Spence
- 13. Remembering without experiencing: Memory for reported events Steen F. Larsen
- 14. What is ordinary memory the memory of? Ulric Neisser
- 15. Go for the skill David C. Rubin
- Indexes.
