Remembering, imagining, false memories & personal meanings. Conway, M. A & Loveday, C. Conscious. Cogn., 33:574--581, May, 2015.
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The Self-Memory System encompasses the working self, autobiographical memory and episodic memory. Specific autobiographical memories are patterns of activation over knowledge structures in autobiographical and episodic memory brought about by the activating effect of cues. The working self can elaborate cues based on the knowledge they initially activate and so control the construction of memories of the past and the future. It is proposed that such construction takes place in the remembering-imagining system - a window of highly accessible recent memories and simulations of near future events. How this malfunctions in various disorders is considered as are the implication of what we term the modern view of human memory for notions of memory accuracy. We show how all memories are to some degree false and that the main role of memories lies in generating personal meanings.
@article{conway_remembering_2015,
	title = {Remembering, imagining, false memories \& personal meanings},
	volume = {33},
	issn = {1053-8100},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.12.002},
	doi = {10.1016/j.concog.2014.12.002},
	abstract = {The Self-Memory System encompasses the working self, autobiographical
memory and episodic memory. Specific autobiographical memories are
patterns of activation over knowledge structures in autobiographical and
episodic memory brought about by the activating effect of cues. The
working self can elaborate cues based on the knowledge they initially
activate and so control the construction of memories of the past and the
future. It is proposed that such construction takes place in the
remembering-imagining system - a window of highly accessible recent
memories and simulations of near future events. How this malfunctions in
various disorders is considered as are the implication of what we term the
modern view of human memory for notions of memory accuracy. We show how
all memories are to some degree false and that the main role of memories
lies in generating personal meanings.},
	journal = {Conscious. Cogn.},
	author = {Conway, Martin A and Loveday, Catherine},
	month = may,
	year = {2015},
	keywords = {Archive, Autobiographical memory, Episodic future thinking, Episodic memory, Imagining, Personal meanings, Simulation, Working self},
	pages = {574--581}
}

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