Remembering Reconsidered
Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory

Remembering Reconsidered presents the new ecologically oriented study of memory.

Ulric Neisser (Edited by), Eugene Winograd (Edited by)

9780521330312, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 June 1988

404 pages
24.3 x 23.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.74 kg

'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.' Science

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.

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
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Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]