Time in Autobiographical Memory

Friedman, William J.

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“…Thus, in order to understand duration estimates, psychologists need to know how an individual Temporal Knowledge and Autobiographical Memory ---5 knows the age of events. Whereas event-specific temporal knowledge has not been studied as thoroughly as duration perceptions, it too has a long intellectual history (Hoffding, 1885;James, 1890;Sturt, 1925) and has recently been the subject of intense empirical scrutiny (Friedman, 2004;Hoerl & McCormack, 2001). …”

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Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective

Skowronski

Sedikides

2012

Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

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Temporal Knowledge and Autobiographical Memory ---2 Temporal Knowledge and Autobiographical Memory: An Evolutionary PerspectiveOne characteristic of humans is that they have a sense of self. Exactly what does this mean? Examination of research and theory exploring the psychology of the self suggests that it has at least three important aspects.The first of these aspects is representation: The memory system contains mental structures that store and organize different kinds of self-relevant knowledge. Some of this knowledge is affective, reflecting the feelings that people have about themselves. Also, some of the knowledge is behavioral, reflecting mental procedures that contain memories of how to carry out various routines (e.g., riding a bicycle). This procedural information is often stored in non-verbal form. In addition, some of the knowledge reflects episodic memories of specific life events. These memories contain perceptual details of events, as well as information about event contexts (e.g., the time at which an event occurred).Furthermore, some of the knowledge is semantic, reflecting memories of self-judgments or the judgments that others have made of, and conveyed to, the self. These selfjudgments can be global (e.g., I am an uncoordinated person) or situationally constrained (e.g., I am good at cooking Indian food). These semantic representations can also contain memories of meta-cognitions (e.g., ideas about how others perceive one's behavior), information referring to dyadic relationships, information about one's position within a group, and information about intragroup dynamics and intergroup relations. Moreover, these semantic representations might contain information about how one compares to others or to the groups to which one belongs. Such information highlights those attributes that make one unique and distinct from attributes that characterize others (personal self), Temporal Knowledge and Autobiographical Memory ---3 those attributes that are shared with others with whom one has interpersonal relations (relational self), or those attributes that one shares with the groups to which one belongs (collective self ) (Sedikides & Brewer, 2001).The second attribute of the human self is that it maintains an executive function, regulating an individual's relation with the social and physical environment. Three classes of motives likely guide this capacity (Sedikides & Skowronski, 2000;Sedikides, Skowronski, & Gaertner, 2004): valuation (i.e., protecting and enhancing the self), learning (i.e., pursing a relatively accurate image of the self, improving skills and abilities), and homeostasis (i.e., seeking and endorsing information that is consistent with the self).The third attribute of the self is reflexivity. This term can be defined as the organism's ability to depict itself in its ongoing relation with other objects. Reflexivity is manifested in the interplay between the representational and executive capacities. For example, reflexivity allows the organism to alter long-term goals and render them...

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Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective

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Sedikides

2012

Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

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“…reminding process in autobiographical memory. In a number of discussions of the order code theory (e.g., Friedman, 1990Friedman, , 2004Winograd & Soloway, 1985), the authors have stated or implied that the reminding process contributes to long-term memory of life or news events. For example, Winograd and Soloway (1985) proposed that order codes could permit one to remember, many years later, the order in which the rescue of Israeli hostages at Entebbe and the attempted rescue of American hostages in Iran took place.…”

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The role of reminding in long-term memory for temporal order

Friedman

2007

Memory & Cognition

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“…Reconstruction and distance processes are similar to recollection and familiarity but not identical. For example, Friedman (1993Friedman ( , 2004 proposed that distance processes are the preferred method for determining temporal context, with reconstruction processes accessed only when accuracy is important (such as in the present study), but not all models of recollection and familiarity make this same assumption (for a review see Yonelinas, 2002). While we found parahippocampal activity for shorter lags suggesting the use of reconstruction processes in this condition, activity in the hippocampus was not as strong a predictor of temporal order memory.…”

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“…The reconstruction-distance distinction (Friedman, 1993(Friedman, , 2004 in retrieving temporal order memory for autobiographical events is similar the recollectionfamiliarity distinction (Yonelinas, 2002) in memory retrieval (also see Bastin, Van der Linden, Michel, & Friedman, 2004;Curran & Friedman, 2003). Like recollection, reconstruction involves the recovery of contextual details, and, similar to familiarity, distance processes rely on the strength of memory traces.…”

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“…In particular, the interaction of distancereconstruction processes and the retrieval of episodic versus semantic autobiographical events is an important issue . Despite possible differences between the two constructs, by characterizing these temporal processes within the framework of recollection and familiarity we were able to make predictions about lateralization differences in the PFC and activity in posterior regions, which were not directly discernable in the behavioral model of reconstruction and distance (Friedman, 1993(Friedman, , 2004.…”

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Functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory

Jacques¹

2012

Understanding Autobiographical Memory

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Autobiographical memory (AM) refers to memory for events from our own personal past. Functional neuroimaging studies of AM are important because they can investigate the neural correlates of processes that are difficult to study using laboratory stimuli, including: complex constructive processes, subjective qualities of memory retrieval, and remote memory. Three functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies are presented to examine these important contributions of AM. The first study investigates the neural correlates of temporal-order memory for autobiographical events using a novel photo paradigm. Participants took photographs at many campus locations over a period of several hours, and the following day they were scanned while making temporal-order judgments to pairs of photographs from different locations. It was found that temporal-order decisions associated with recollection recruited left prefrontal (PFC) and left posterior parahippocampal cortex, whereas temporal-order decisions relying on familiarity recruited greater activity in the right PFC.The second study examines self-projection, the capacity to re-experience the personal past and to mentally infer another person's perspective. A novel camera technology was used to examine self-projection by prospectively generating dynamic visuospatial images taken from a first-person perspective. Participants were literally asked to self-project into the personal past or into the life of another person. Selfv projection of one's own past self recruited greater ventral medial PFC (mPFC), and selfprojection of another individual recruited dorsal mPFC. Activity in ventral vs. dorsal mPFC was also sensitive to the ability to relive or understand the perspective taken on each trial. Further, task-related functional connectivity analysis revealed that ventral mPFC contributed to the medial temporal lobe network linked to memory processes, whereas dorsal mPFC contributed to the frontoparietal network linked to controlled processes.The third study focuses on the neural correlates underlying age-related differences in the recall of episodically rich AMs. Age-related attenuation in the episodic richness of AM was linked to reductions in activity elicited during elaboration.Age effects on AM were more pronounced during elaboration than search, with older adults showing less sustained recruitment of the hippocampus and ventrolateral PFC for less episodically rich AMs. Further, there was an age-related reduction in the top-down modulation of the PFC on the hippocampus by episodic richness, possibly reflecting fewer controlled processes operating on the recovery of information in the hippocampus.Ultimately, the goal of all memory research is to understand how memory operates in the real-world; the present research highlights the important contribution of functional neuroimaging studies of AM in attaining this goal.vi

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Time in Autobiographical Memory

Cited by 154 publications

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Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective

Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective

The role of reminding in long-term memory for temporal order

Functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory

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