Sentences with phrase «of autobiographical memories»

The sense of threat arises as a consequence of (1) excessively negative appraisals of the trauma and / or its sequelae and (2) a disturbance of the autobiographical memory of the trauma, characterized by poor elaboration and contextualization, strong associative memory, and strong perceptual priming.

'... a highly readable and erudite account of autobiographical memory... A rich book for holiday reading.»

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Then, abruptly abandoning the autobiographical narrative, Augustine embarks on a series of theological and philosophical speculations about time, memory, and the opening chapters of Genesis.

This book will make you think and it's hard to give a greater compliment than that... a deeply personal and sensitively constructed exposition of some of the most enduring philosophical questions... particularly fascinating... endearingly autobiographical style... Shaha has constructed a charmingly readable journey through some of the most enduring philosophical territory, weaving memories and thoughtful anecdotes into a powerful story of hope and truth.

The research, «Externalizing the autobiographical self: sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention,» appeared in a recent edition of the journal Mmemory retention,» appeared in a recent edition of the journal MemoryMemory.

«This work is the first step toward a better understanding of the autobiographical self in the internet era where the virtual externalization of personal memories has become commonplace,» the study said.

Cahill discussed the recently discovered phenomenon of HSAM, highly superior autobiographical memory.

Reviewing the pictures may be a form of brain calisthenics for enhancing the mental process known as autobiographical memory, recalling the time and place of past events.

My autobiographical memories fit the general pattern described in your feature (6 October, p 36): I have few before the age of 5 or 6.

Instead of relying on interviews with adults, as previous studies of childhood amnesia have done, the Emory researchers wanted to document early autobiographical memory formation, as well as the age of forgetting these memories.

Persons with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM, also known as hyperthymesia)-- which was first identified in 2006 by scientists at UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distantmemory (HSAM, also known as hyperthymesia)-- which was first identified in 2006 by scientists at UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distantMemory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distant past.

Young children tend to forget events more rapidly than adults do because they lack the strong neural processes required to bring together all the pieces of information that go into a complex autobiographical memory, she explains.

In a series of tests to determine how false information can manipulate memory formation, the researchers discovered that subjects with highly superior autobiographical memory logged scores similar to those of a control group of subjects with average memory.

10 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF Autobiographies are made of personal memories, the sum total of our life experiences, including the experiences of the plans we have made for the future, specific or vague.

The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.

Canadian and U.K. researchers found that two patients who had lost their autobiographical memory (not to mention the ability to view themselves in future situations — such as dreaming about their wedding day) were able to pick up emotional cues and figure out the intentions of others.

Three things stand out about our memories of life experiences, so - called autobiographical memories.

Whether other types of learning and memory (such as verbal or autobiographical) can be similarly enhanced awaits future study, as does the determination of the existence of laterality effects.

In the early 1950's, the psychological study of a few neurosurgical patients (including the now well - known patient H.M.), all of whom exhibited a profound anterograde amnesia following bilateral damage to the medial structures of the temporal lobes, revealed the importance of the hippocampal region for autobiographical memory.

By contrast, «episodic memory» refers to the encoding of autobiographical information relating to a specific event that is located in time.

Invited Speakers: Martin Conway — Autobiographical memory and self http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/academic-staff-profiles/profe... Nick Chater — Self and Other in Joint Action http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/ Kevin O'Regan — Phenomenal experience of self http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/ Giorgio Metta — Physical Self and Peri-personal Space http://pasa.liralab.it Yiannis Demiris — Motor Self and Development of the Mirror system http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis Paul Verschure — An Architecture for Self specs.upf.edu Peter Ford Dominey — Construction of the Narrative Self over Time http://pfdominey.perso.sfr.fr/RobotDemos.htm

Their interaction covers a lot of mental territory, including recalling autobiographical memories and semantic information (the president's birthday, for example), thinking about or planning the future, imagining new events, inferring the mental states of others, reasoning about moral dilemmas, reading fiction, self - reflecting, and appraising social and emotional information.

Negative self - processing is associated with alterations in the neural correlates of self - referential processing (e.g., midline cortical structures) and autobiographical memory systems (e.g., medial temporal lobe structures).

A pair of animated features debut: Waltz With Bashir (2008), an autobiographical tale of memory and repression turned oral history of the Lebanon war (R), and the made - for - TV family film The Point (1971), with songs by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr (not rated).

Much like his previous film on American movies, Scorsese begins on an autobiographical note, the sense of nostalgic reminiscence foregrounded with memories of family viewings of Roberto Rossellini's Paisan, before affording the movies in question a greater depth of analysis, of personal resonance.

Award - winning Spanish author Molina tells the story of James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after killing Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and mixes it with autobiographical elements to ask: How does our experience of history, or our collective memory, affect our future?

Using the visual language of mythological depictions of wrestling, mined from art historical sources and his own memory, these paintings propose new through lines in Dunham's practice that are both formal and autobiographical in nature.

These autobiographical works draw on the memories that Neely carries with her, «hidden in plain sight,» of the experiences that have shaped her life.

A ghostly yet solid memory of the piece of furniture, Whiteread's subjects are inspired by both public and personal narratives, driven by «an autobiographical impulse, using something familiar, to do with my childhood» (R. Whiteread, quoted in Rachel Whiteread, exh.

Although inspired by a photograph of her great, great - uncle who was a sailor, and therefore autobiographical, the piece creates a new, imagined actuality based upon memory and henceforth studies the space between reality and fiction.

Personal history is primary in works such as Radcliffe Bailey's Tricky 3 (2011), a multilayered piece that employs collage and explores both African American history and influences on the artist, and Trenton Doyle Hancock's 548 First Street N.E. (2012), an autobiographical portfolio based on the artist's childhood memories of his grandmother's house.

In those far off days Sonia Boyce made large scale pastel drawings, full of pattern and portrait, seductive autobiographical narratives revealing absolutely everything about real life and young love, secret conversations, working peoples aspirations, difficult relationships and childhood memories.

Yet, far from an autobiographical study, the work evokes varieties of collective cultural memory, the contrasting ways in which different inhabitants of the landscape identify with its idiosyncratic character and atmosphere.

His art made in the last decade often explores the theme of the «origins» of civilization and incorporates autobiographical reflections, including his childhood memories of watching the physical torture and suffering of his parents during the Cultural Revolution (1966 — 76), states the museum in an artist bio.

Downey uses the material, painterly process of image - creation to merge a history experienced only through books, movies, and photographs with autobiographical memories set in the leftover landscape of that history.

Interspersed with tiny bottles of whisky, rum and other spirits, rows of books, boxes full of clutter, scrunched up paper, and many other hidden gems, the artwork is a true autobiographical reflection on thoughts, memories and drunken antics.

Her projects are often autobiographical in nature, maintaining a focus on womanhood, memories and the development of society.

The autobiographical dimension of the artist's work is revealed in pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect is evident in paintings of grids and squares rendered in primary colors and in works based on architectural planes.

Eternity is a Long Time, has been conceived as a way of coming to grips with the artist's complex and highly diverse body of work, while simultaneously creating the opportunity to examine the fascinating web of cultural aspects and autobiographical memories that are so engrained in his art.

Exhibition Overview Conscious and Unconscious will offer a representative survey of Louise Bourgeois's highly autobiographical and diverse body of work, which addresses themes of motherhood, identity, memory, and the cycles of life.

Leckey's new work is a compelling and distinctive visual essay, an act of memory that conjures slippery fragments of the familiar with the unfamiliar in a nuanced autobiographical mode.

Their artworks provide a personal and cultural history of three generations of Inuit women whose art practices included autobiographical narratives and chronicled intimate and sometimes harsh memories and historically resonant moments.

What I ended up with is these strange part - autobiographical scenarios that are about blending experience, memory and ideas in an all - enveloping textural field, within which a figure or group of figures exists loosely.

The autobiographical dimension of the artist's work is clear in her pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect of her oeuvre is evident in her paintings of grids and squares rendered in primary colors and in works based on architectural planes.

Curated by Emi Fontana, a Mike Kelley expert and independent curator based in Los Angeles, and Andrea Lissoni, curator at HangarBicocca, Mike Kelley: Eternity is a Long Time, has been conceived as a way of coming to grips with the artist's complex and highly diverse body of work, while simultaneously creating the opportunity to examine the fascinating web of cultural aspects and autobiographical memories that are engrained in his art.

The «Autobiographical Series» (1994) captures her deepest thoughts and memories, while her set of»11 Drypoints» (1999) offers a more abstract perspective, using metaphorical motifs to conjure the dreams and images that haunted her to the very end of her life.

The current view is that autobiographical memories are mental constructions that consist of various types of information.

When a person recalls an autobiographical memory, then, these two types of long - term memory representation are brought together and a person consciously experiences episodic memories of specific aspects of the past and conceptual knowledge that acts as a personal context for the episodic memories, locating them in a person's life and providing a personal, self - relevant, meaning for them (3.15).

In general the type of memory we are concerned with here is known as autobiographical memory (3.25).

Before and after the manipulation, participants completed the Autobiographical Memory Test, a standard measure of overgeneral mMemory Test, a standard measure of overgeneral memorymemory.