Contextualizing Human Memory: An interdisciplinary approach by Charles Stone, Lucas Bietti

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By Charles Stone, Lucas Bietti

This edited assortment presents an inter- and intra-disciplinary dialogue of the severe position context performs in how and whilst contributors and teams take into accout the earlier. overseas participants combine key study from a variety of disciplines, together with social and cognitive psychology, discursive psychology, philosophy/philosophical psychology and cognitive linguistics, to extend expertise of the imperative position that cultural, social and technological contexts play in settling on person and collective reminiscences at a number of, but interconnected, degrees of human event.

Divided into 3 components, cognitive and mental views, social and cultural views, and cognitive linguistics and philosophical views, Stone and Bietti current a breadth of analysis on reminiscence in context. themes lined include:

    • the building of self-identity in reminiscence
    • flashbulb stories
    • scaffolding reminiscence
    • the cultural psychology of remembering
    • social features of memory
    • the mnemonic effects of silence
    • emotion and memory
    • eyewitness identification
    • multimodal conversation and collective remembering.


Contextualizing Human reminiscence allows researchers to appreciate the diversity of labor undertaken in similar fields, and to understand the significance of context in figuring out while, how and what's remembered at any given recollection. The booklet will entice researchers, lecturers and postgraduate scholars within the fields of cognitive and social psychology, in addition to these in comparable disciplines drawn to studying extra in regards to the advancing box of reminiscence stories.

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Contextualizing Human Memory: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding how individuals and groups remember the past

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