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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2010
      October 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511664069
      9780521401883
      9780521030335
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511664069
      Dimensions:
      (246 x 189 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.675kg, 328 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Cognition
      Series:
      Emory Symposia in Cognition (4)
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    Subjects:
    Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Cognition
    Series:
    Emory Symposia in Cognition (4)
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    Recollections of unexpected and emotional events (called 'flashbulb' memories) have long been the subject of theoretical speculation. Previous meetings have brought together everyone who has done research on memories of the Challenger explosion, in order to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of flashbulb memories. How do flashbulb memories compare with other kinds of recollections? Are they unusually accurate, or especially long-lived? Do they reflect the activity of a special mechanism, as has been suggested? Although Affect and Accuracy in Recall focuses on flashbulb memories, it addresses more general issues of affect and accuracy. Do emotion and arousal strengthen memory? If so, under what conditions? By what physiological mechanisms? This 1993 volume is evidence of progress made in memory research since Brown and Kulick's 1977 paper.

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    "...a important book that will be used extensively by researchers concerned with memory in natural circumstances. It contains excellent reviews of the effects of emotion on memory, developmental aspects of flashbulb memories, and the neurobiology of memory and concludes with spirited discussion of methodological and theoretical issues." Martin A. Conway, Science

    "...well-written...well-balanced...the subject matter is inherently interesting to a broad audience...I strongly recommend this book. Efforts at studying and conceptualizing the interaction between affect and memory are not easy to find, and the authors of this book have made a scholarly contribution to this scientifically and clinically important area." Nathan Zilberg, Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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