Memory Editing Mechanisms - A Special Issue of Memory (Paperback, New)

This special issue of Memory is devoted to an investigation of those mechanisms by which memory is edited for inaccuracies and inconsistencies. In the past 20 years, false memories have been investigated from a variety of different angles. Substantial evidence indicates that false memories can be created in a number of different situations, including word learning, sentence and story memory, eyewitness memory, memory for faces, and memory for naturalistic scenes. In each of these cases, it has been found that memory is subject to a range of distortions. But, there has also been an increasing recognition that this is only half the story. For, although memory is subject to distortion, there are also quality control mechanisms that are utilized that allow our memories to be relied on as reasonably accurate under most circumstances. These mechanisms include recollection rejection, distinctiveness, and source memory. The focus of this special issue then, is on the interplay between those mechanisms that distort memory and those mechanisms that protect memory against distortion.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Special Issues of Memory
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Susan E. Gathercole • Martin A. Conway
Dimensions:	270 x 202 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	142
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84169-815-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84169-815-6
Barcode:	9781841698151

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