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Memory

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Medical Sciences27%
Psychology21%
Life Sciences18%
Humanities and Social Sciences16%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting2%
Chemistry2%
Engineering2%
7 Other Domains12%
Distribution within Medical Sciences
Psychiatry22%
Neurology14%
Immunology7%
50 Other Subdomains57%

Kinds of Memory

  • access memory
  • associative memory
  • autobiographical memory
  • cell memory
  • central memory
  • children memory
  • collective memory
  • cultural memory
  • dangerous memory
  • declarative memory
  • early memory
  • effector memory
  • emotional memory
  • epigenetic memory
  • episodic memory
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  • event memory
  • explicit memory
  • eyewitness memory
  • fading memory
  • false memory
  • fear memory
  • historical memory
  • human memory
  • immediate memory
  • immune memory
  • immunological memory
  • implicit memory
  • in memory
  • individual memory
  • intrusive memory
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  • long memory
  • long-term memory
  • long-term spatial memory
  • main memory
  • metabolic memory
  • nonverbal memory
  • organizational memory
  • personal memory
  • procedural memory
  • prospective memory
  • public memory
  • random access memory
  • recognition memory
  • selective memory
  • semantic memory
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  • shape memory
  • short-term memory
  • social memory
  • source memory
  • spatial memory
  • trauma memory
  • traumatic memory
  • verbal memory
  • verbal short-term memory
  • visual memory
  • work memory

    • Terms modified by Memory

  • memory ability
  • memory acquisition
  • memory alloy
  • memory application
  • memory b cell
  • memory behavior
  • memory bias
  • memory capacity
  • memory cd4 t cell
  • memory cd4+ t cell
  • memory cd8 t cell
  • memory cd8+ t cell
  • memory cell
  • memory characteristic
  • memory clinic
  • memory complaints
  • memory component
  • memory consolidation
  • memory consumption
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  • memory content
  • memory deficit
  • memory demand
  • memory development
  • memory device
  • memory difficulty
  • memory disorder
  • memory disorders
  • memory distortion
  • memory disturbance
  • memory dysfunction
  • memory effect
  • memory effects
  • memory error
  • memory formation
  • memory function
  • memory impairment
  • memory load
  • memory loss
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  • memory management
  • memory measure
  • memory model
  • memory paradigm
  • memory parameter
  • memory performance
  • memory phenomenon
  • memory phenotype
  • memory polymer
  • memory problem
  • memory process
  • memory processing
  • memory property
  • memory recall
  • memory representation
  • memory requirement
  • memory response
  • memory retention
  • memory retrieval
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  • memory scale
  • memory score
  • memory skill
  • memory specificity
  • memory storage
  • memory studies
  • memory subset
  • memory system
  • memory t cell
  • memory task
  • memory test
  • memory time series
  • memory traces
  • memory usage
  • memory work

    • Selected Abstracts

    EARLY INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES ON D. W. MEINIG: A FORMER STUDENT'S FOND MEMORIES,

    GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 3 2009
    BRUCE BIGELOW
    ABSTRACT. As an undergraduate and graduate student in the 1940s and a young professor at the University of Utah in the 1950s, D. W. Meinig was influenced by a number of scholars. They included six historians, three geographers, two anthropologists, and two philosophers. I identify the influence of the thirteen scholars on Meinig's major achievements: the culture area model, geography as an art, the historical imperative for geography, cultures and civilizations, and geopolitics and imperialism. [source]

    043.20 HISTAMINE and SPATIAL MEMORY

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, Issue 9 2000
    S. Rubio
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    043.16 CAPACITY, DURATION and SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF WORKING MEMORY IN A FOOD-STORING and A NON-STORING BIRD

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, Issue 9 2000
    R. Biegler
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    PUBLIC MEMORY AND POLITICAL POWER IN GUATEMALA'S POSTCONFLICT LANDSCAPE

    GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2003
    MICHAEL K. STEINBERG
    ABSTRACT. Landscape interpretation, or "reading" the landscape, is one of cultural geography's standard practices. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to reading landscapes transformed by insurgency movements or civil wars. Those landscapes can tell us a great deal about past and present political and social relationships as well as continuing power struggles. Guatemala presents a complicated postwar landscape "text" in which the struggle for power continues by many means and media, including how the war is portrayed on memorials, and in which the Catholic Church and the military/state are the two main competing powers. This essay explores some of the images and the text presented in Guatemala's postconflict landscape through contrasting landmarks and memorials associated with the country's thirty-six-year-long civil war that formally ended in 1996. [source]

    MEMORY, AMNESIA AND IDENTITY IN HERMANN BROCH'S SCHLAFWANDLER TRILOGY

    GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 2 2008
    Graham Bartram
    ABSTRACT Through its three novels, set in 1888, 1903 and 1918, Broch's Schlafwandler trilogy traces a progressive fragmentation of social values in late modernity. This article investigates a key marker of this fragmentation: the figuration of individual and collective memory, which undergoes a radical shift between Part I and Part III. In Part I the depiction of memory engages the reader with the protagonist's psychological and moral conflicts and the formation of his individual identity. In Part II memory features as abstract and collective, in allegorical meditations on man's existence in time; in Part III the theme of remembering is largely displaced by that of amnesia, emphasising the isolation of the individual in the era of ,Wertzerfall'. This depiction of cultural disintegration is, however, counterbalanced by the symbolic unity of Die Schlafwandler, whose aesthetic structures play an essential part in what Broch saw as the novel's ,cognitive' task. Here memory features within the reading process itself. To conclude we examine some of the trilogy's densely intersecting leitmotifs that activate the reader's memory in defiance of disintegration and amnesia, and thereby contribute a vital element to the realisation of the ,cognitive novel'. [source]

    MEMORY, MEMORIALS, AND COMMEMORATION,

    HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 3 2008
    ANITA KASABOVA
    ABSTRACT According to a popular view, the past is present here and now. This is presentism combined with endurantism: the past continuously persists through time to the present. By contrast, I argue that memories, memorials, and histories are of entities discontinuous with present experiences, and that the continuity between past and present in them is a construct. Memories, memorials, and histories are semantic means for dealing with the past. My presupposition that past and present are different is supported by grammar: as verbal tenses show, the past is not present here and now, for otherwise it would not be past. A failure to note this difference is a lack of chronesthesia, a sense of time specific to human beings. I argue that presentism fails to account for the temporal structures of memory and the changes in perspective as we switch from the present to a past situation. My account is perdurantist in the sense that it allows for temporal parts of things such as memorials or tombstones, as well as events such as wars or commemorations. But my main goal is to outline a semantic approach to the past: the tie between past and present actions and events is the semantic ground,consequence relation: a past event is the antecedent grounding a present situation, explaining why it is the case. In addition, I show how we refer to the past by means of two rhetorical figures of speech: synecdoche, using the (emblematic-) part-whole relation for relating the past to the present by transposing its sense; and anaphor, which has a deictic function,it points back toward the past. In references to the past, the deictic field is a scene visualized by the speaker and addressees: the deictic field is transposed from a perceptual to an imaginary space. [source]

    A NOTE ON CHAMBERS'S "LONG MEMORY AND AGGREGATION IN MACROECONOMIC TIME SERIES",

    INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 3 2005
    Leonardo Rocha Souza
    This note reviews some results on aggregating discrete-time long memory processes, providing a formula for the spectrum of the aggregates that considers the aliasing effect. [source]

    II. STUDY 1: MEMORY AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION

    MONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 3 2003
    Article first published online: 8 DEC 200
    First page of article [source]

    CORTICAL DYNAMICS FOR VISUAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT OBJECTS: WHERE VISION MEETS MEMORY

    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, Issue 2007
    Article first published online: 14 AUG 200
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    ATTENTION AND MEMORY IN AUDITION: MEASUREMENTS OF BRAIN ACTIVITY AND BEHAVIOR

    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, Issue 2007
    Article first published online: 14 AUG 200
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF VISUAL ATTENTION AND VISUAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY: FROM N2PC TO SPCN

    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, Issue 2006
    Article first published online: 7 AUG 200
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    ,JUST CHOOSE ONE': MEMORY AND TIME IN KORE-EDA'S WANDAFURU RAIFU [AFTERLIFE](1998),

    THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 3 2001
    Andrea Sabbadini
    First page of article [source]

    Front and Back Covers, Volume 22, Number 3.

    ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 3 2006
    June 200
    Front and back cover caption, volume 22 issue 3 Front & back cover ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEMORY The front cover shows a statue Of General Francisco Franco In the exhibition 'Franco, Listen!', held at the Museum of Vilafranca del Penedčs, Barcelona. The statue was displayed with the aim of stimulating comment, dialogue and action among museum visitors around the time of the 30th anniversary of the dictator's death on 20 November 1975. It was attacked by a group of Catalan pro-independence activists, who poured red paint over Franco's head, invested him with a crown, and hung a sign around his neck reading: 'The Spanish Monarchy is a direct inheritance from Franco - end the hypocrisy.' The back cover shows a formerly unmarked mass grave strewn with floral tributes after a spontaneous ceremony led by relatives of the 46 people killed near Villamayor de los Montes (Burgos), following the exhumation of the bodies in July 2004. In this issue, Francisco Ferrándiz describes the debates taking place in Spain around the exhumation of mass graves from the Civil War (1936-1939). In the last few years the strength of the 'movement for the recovery of historical memory' linked to the exhumations has been such that some on the political right are denouncing the advent of a 'new hegemony of the defeated' that is taking the place of the 'agreement of all' which many believe was the trademark of the Spanish transition to democracy. Proposing that anthropologists visit and address the sites of memory - exhumations, cemeteries, political discourses, laws and commemorations, claims of victimhood, media reports, artistic performances, forensic laboratories, academic meetings and summer schools, historiographical debates, civil associations, historical archives, public and private rituals, narratives of the defeat and old photo albums, to name a few - Ferrándiz encourages anthropology to engage in 'rapid response' research, to diversify fieldwork locations, to modulate research strategies in order to address rapidly evolving problems, to continue visiting the sites of violence, past and present, and to produce the type of knowledge that allows us to participate in substantive ways in social and political debates well beyond our discipline and beyond our academic setting. [source]

    ROBERT HOOKE, MONUMENTS AND MEMORY

    ART HISTORY, Issue 1 2005
    Christine Stevenson
    In June 1682, when Robert Hooke (1635,1703) delivered a lecture to the Royal Society on memory , his first and only excursion into human psychology , he had just witnessed a spectacularly public failure of memory when new texts were added to the Monument (1671,76), which he had designed with Christopher Wren. In a direct civic challenge to royal authority, these explained that the ,Papists' had set London's Great Fire of September 1666. This paper examines the tensions and accommodations between the City of London and Charles II that accompanied the Monument's erection; the column serves to dramatize the difficulties besetting would-be memorializers in Restoration England. It is suggested that Hooke's memory lecture must be read, not only in the light of specific political anxieties then attached to memory, but against the other ways in which he grappled with forms of signification, here treated as forms of historical witness. [source]

    A PERSONAL VIEW OF A CONFERENCE HELD IN MEMORY OF STEPHEN MITCHELL

    BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, Issue 1 2002
    MARGUERITE VALENTINE PHD
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    LONG-TERM EXPOSURE TO EXTREMELY LOW-FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS IMPAIRS SPATIAL RECOGNITION MEMORY IN MICE

    CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY, Issue 7 2008
    Yu Fu
    SUMMARY 1In the present study, we investigated the short- and long-term effects of extremely low-frequency (ELF) magnetic fields on spatial recognition memory in mice by using a two-trial recognition Y-maze that is based on the innate tendency of rodents to explore novel environments. 2Mice were exposed to 25 or 50 Hz electromagnetic fields for either 7 (short term) or 25 days (long term) and then tested in the Y-maze. 3The results indicated that neither short- nor long-term exposure to magnetic fields affected the locomotor activity of mice in the Y-maze. However, long-term exposure to 50 Hz fields reduced recognition of the novel arm. 4Our findings suggest that ELF magnetic fields impair spatial recognition memory in the Y-maze depending on the field strength and/or duration of exposure. [source]

    Education and the Dangerous Memories of Historical Trauma: Narratives of Pain, Narratives of Hope

    CURRICULUM INQUIRY, Issue 2 2008
    MICHALINOS ZEMBYLAS
    ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to explore the meanings and implications of dangerous memories in two different sites of past traumatic memories: one in Israel and the other in Cyprus. Dangerous memories are defined as those memories that are disruptive to the status quo, that is, the hegemonic culture of strengthening and perpetuating existing group-based identities. Our effort is to outline some insights from this endeavor,insights that may help educators recognize the potential of dangerous memories to ease pain and offer hope. First, a discussion on memory, history and identity sets the ground for discussing the meaning and significance of dangerous memories in the history curriculum. Next, we narrate two stories from our longitudinal ethnographic studies on trauma and memory in Israel and Cyprus; these stories are interpreted through the lens of dangerous memories and their workings in relation to the hegemonic powers that aim to sustain collective memories. The two different stories suggest that collective memories of historical trauma are not simply "transmitted" in any simple way down the generations,although there are powerful workings that support this transmission. Rather, there seems to be much ambivalence in the workings of memories that under some circumstances may create openings for new identities. The final section discusses the possibilities of developing a pedagogy of dangerous memories by highlighting educational implications that focus on the notion of creating new solidarities without forgetting past traumas. This last section employs dangerous memories as a critical category for pedagogy in the context of our general concern about the implications of memory, history and identity in educational contexts. [source]

    Recollections of parent,child relationships in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder with agoraphobia

    ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, Issue 4 2002
    L. Turgeon
    Objective:,In previous studies, patients with different psychiatric conditions, as compared with matched controls, have reported that their parents were more protective and less caring towards them when they were children. However, studies investigating associations between parental behaviours and anxiety disorders have yielded inconsistent results. The aim of this study was to compare recalled parental behaviours in out-patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), in out-patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA), and in non-anxious controls. Method:,The sample included 43 out-patients with OCD, 38 with PDA, and 120 controls. Participants completed the Parental Bonding Instrument and the Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran or Own Memories of Parental Rearing Experiences in Childhood. Results:,No differences were found between the two anxious groups. However, compared with the control group, anxious patients recalled their parents as more protective. Conclusion:,Our findings suggest that child rearing practices such as overprotection may be a risk factor in the development of anxiety disorders. [source]

    Life Stories, War, and Veterans: On the Social Distribution of Memories

    ETHOS, Issue 1 2004
    Edna Lomsky-Feder
    On the basis of examining life stories narrated by 63 Israeli male veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this article delves into the social construction of personal memory. Focusing on the remembering subject will allow us to study this process by highlighting the agent who creates his or her world, but at the same time it will disclose how society frames and channels the agent's choices. My contention is that personal memory (traumatic or normalizing, conforming or critical) is embedded within, designed by, and derives its meaning from, a memory field that offers different interpretations of war. Yet this memory field is not an open space, and the remembering subject is not free to choose any interpretation he wishes. Cultural criteria "distribute" accessibility to different collective memories according to social entitlement. These "distributive criteria" dictate who is entitled to remember and what is to be remembered, thereby controlling the extent of trauma and criticism of personal memory. [source]

    Memories of Tom David Andersen: Friend, Colleague, Scholar, Inspirer, and Rhizome

    FAMILY PROCESS, Issue 4 2007
    HARLENE ANDERSON
    First page of article [source]

    Talkin''Bout My Generation :Memories of 1968 in Recent German Novels

    GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 2 2006
    Monika Shafi
    This article examines the depiction of 1968 in the novel Rot (2001) by Uwe Timm, in the narrative Mein Jahrhundert (1999) by Günter Grass, and in the autobiographical novel Die Brücke vom goldenen Horn (1998) by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, asking to what extent the concept of generation, understood sociologically and symbolically, is useful in analysing West Germany's 1968 generation and its legacy. The three authors display not only contrasting generational, literary and political profiles, they also entertain a different relationship to German mainstream culture. It becomes clear that Özdamar's novel unsettles precisely this dichotomy between the German mainstream and a multicultural niche-discourse in its intense engagement with the 1968 movement in Germany and Europe. Her text therefore invites us to reconsider the value of the generational parameter in assessing the events of 1968. [source]

    ,Memories of the Maimed': The Testimony of Charles I's Former Soldiers, 1660,1730

    HISTORY, Issue 290 2003
    Mark Stoyle
    Historians have paid little attention to the experiences and attitudes of the ordinary men who enlisted in the royalist armies during the English Civil War: chiefly because such individuals , most of them poor and unlettered , left no formal memoirs of their wartime service behind them. The present article suggests that the petitions for financial relief which were submitted by wounded and impoverished Cavalier veterans after the Restoration can help to bridge this evidential gap and to illuminate the mental world of the king's more humble supporters. By putting the language of the ,maimed soldiers' petitions' under the microscope, it shows how the artisans, husbandmen and labourers who had fought for Charles I viewed the conflict in retrospect. The article begins by considering the strengths and limitations of the petitions themselves and the purposes for which they were initially composed. It then goes on to discuss what these documents reveal: not only about the physical suffering which the king's soldiers had undergone in the field, but also about their views of their comrades, their commanders and their enemies. The article concludes by arguing that the personal and political links which had been forged amid the fiery trials of the Civil War continued to bind together former royalists, of all ranks, for decades after the conflict came to an end. [source]

    MEMORY, MEMORIALS, AND COMMEMORATION,

    HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 3 2008
    ANITA KASABOVA
    ABSTRACT According to a popular view, the past is present here and now. This is presentism combined with endurantism: the past continuously persists through time to the present. By contrast, I argue that memories, memorials, and histories are of entities discontinuous with present experiences, and that the continuity between past and present in them is a construct. Memories, memorials, and histories are semantic means for dealing with the past. My presupposition that past and present are different is supported by grammar: as verbal tenses show, the past is not present here and now, for otherwise it would not be past. A failure to note this difference is a lack of chronesthesia, a sense of time specific to human beings. I argue that presentism fails to account for the temporal structures of memory and the changes in perspective as we switch from the present to a past situation. My account is perdurantist in the sense that it allows for temporal parts of things such as memorials or tombstones, as well as events such as wars or commemorations. But my main goal is to outline a semantic approach to the past: the tie between past and present actions and events is the semantic ground,consequence relation: a past event is the antecedent grounding a present situation, explaining why it is the case. In addition, I show how we refer to the past by means of two rhetorical figures of speech: synecdoche, using the (emblematic-) part-whole relation for relating the past to the present by transposing its sense; and anaphor, which has a deictic function,it points back toward the past. In references to the past, the deictic field is a scene visualized by the speaker and addressees: the deictic field is transposed from a perceptual to an imaginary space. [source]

    Pharmacotherapy to Blunt Memories of Sexual Violence: What's a Feminist to Think?

    HYPATIA, Issue 3 2010
    ELISA A. HURLEY
    It has recently been discovered that propranolol,a beta-blocker traditionally used to treat cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension,might disrupt the formation of the emotionally disturbing memories that typically occur in the wake of traumatic events and consequently prevent the onset of trauma-induced psychological injuries such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. One context in which the use of propranolol is generating interest in both the popular and scientific press is sexual violence. Nevertheless, feminists have so far not weighed in on propranolol. I suggest that the time is ripe for a careful feminist analysis of the moral and political implications of propranolol use in the context of sexual violence. In this paper, I map the feminist issues potentially raised by providing propranolol to victims of sexual assault, focusing in particular on the compatibility of propranolol use and availability with an understanding of the social and systematic dimensions of rape's harms. I do not deliver a final verdict on propranolol; in fact, I show that we do not yet have enough information about propranolol's effects to do so. Rather, I provide a feminist framework for evaluating the possibilities and perils opened up by therapeutic memory manipulation in the context of sexual violence against women. [source]

    Redox-Based Resistive Switching Memories , Nanoionic Mechanisms, Prospects, and Challenges

    ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 25-26 2009
    Rainer Waser
    This review article introduces resistive switching processes that are being considered for nanoelectronic nonvolatile memories. The three main classes are based on an electrochemical metallization mechanism, a valence change mechanism, and a thermochemical mechanism, respectively. The current understanding of the microscopic mechanisms is discussed and the scaling potential is outlined.. [source]

    A Low-Temperature-Grown Oxide Diode as a New Switch Element for High-Density, Nonvolatile Memories,

    ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 1 2007
    M.-J. Lee
    A one-diode/one-resistor structure, Pt/NiO/Pt/p-NiOx/n-TiOx/Pt, has been fabricated. This novel structure exhibits bistable resistance switching under forward bias, while the diode suppresses resistance switching in the Pt/NiO/Pt memory cell under reverse bias (see figure). Its low processing temperature and small cell size, as well as excellent rectifying characteristics, make this Pt/p-NiOx/n-TiOx/Pt diode structure a promising switch element for high- density, nonvolatile memory devices with 3D stack and cross-point structures. [source]

    Persistence of Traumatic Memories in World War II Prisoners of War

    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY, Issue 12 2009
    (See editorial comments by Dr. Jules Rosen, 2347), on pp 234
    OBJECTIVES: To assess the long-term effects of the prisoner of war (POW) experience on U.S. World War II (WWII) veterans. DESIGN: Exploratory study. SETTING: Participants were recruited through the Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital; a POW reunion in Orlando, Florida; and the WWII veterans periodical, "The QUAN." PARTICIPANTS: One hundred fifty-seven American military veterans who were former WWII POWs. MEASURMENTS: Participants completed a mailed survey describing their POW experiences, POW effects on subsequent psychological and physical well-being, and ways in which these experiences shaped major decisions in their lives. RESULTS: Participants from the European and Pacific theaters reported that their captivity during WWII affected their long-term emotional well-being. Both groups reported high rates of reflection, dreaming, and flashbacks pertaining to their POW experiences, but Pacific theater POWs did so at higher rates in the present than in the past. Large portions of both groups reported greater rumination on POW experiences after retirement. Finally, 16.6% of participants met the requirements of a current, clinical diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) based on the Mississippi PTSD scale, with PTSD rates in Pacific theater POWs (34%) three times those of European theater POWs (12%). CONCLUSION: Traumatic memories and clinical levels of PTSD persist for WWII POWs as long as 65 years after their captivity. Additionally, rumination about these experiences, including flashbacks and persistent nightmares, may increase after retirement, particularly for those held in the Pacific theater. These findings inform the current therapeutic needs of this elderly population and future generations of POWs from other military conflicts. [source]

    Memories of the McNutt fellowship

    JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS PATHOLOGY, Issue 2008
    Christopher R. Shea MD
    [source]

    The Present of the Past: Dialogues With Memory Over Time

    JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, Issue 3 2009
    Ruthellen Josselson
    ABSTRACT This study analyzes the self-constructing meanings of an autobiographical episode in the life of one woman told at repeated intervals over 35 years. It demonstrates the ways in which the present constructs the past and shows how autobiographical memory may be used dialogically to create and contrast with current self-constructions, to disavow intolerable aspects of self, and to preserve disused but valued self-representations. Memories, in this sense, operate as texts whose meaning changes as the dialogue within self changes. The meanings of past memories, rather than their contents, are reshaped to hold aspects of a layered, multiple self. [source]

    Psychosocial Stages and the Accessibility of Autobiographical Memories Across the Life Cycle

    JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, Issue 3 2004
    Martin A. Conway
    Memories were classified in terms of the psychosocial stages to which their content corresponded. For the majority of memories it was found that age at encoding corresponded to when specific psychosocial stages would have been most likely to have occurred. In a second experiment older adults recalled memories to cues drawn from psychosocial stages and the same pattern of findings was observed. These findings demonstrate that the goals of the self play a major role in both the encoding and accessibility of autobiographical memories, and they also provide support for Erikson's psychosocial theory of development (1950, 1997). [source]