An Audio-Based Personal Memory Aid

2004 ◽  
pp. 400-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Vemuri ◽  
Chris Schmandt ◽  
Walter Bender ◽  
Stefanie Tellex ◽  
Brad Lassey
Keyword(s):  
Personal Memory

Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher McCarroll
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Observer Perspective ◽  
Over Time

This chapter draws together the different strands of the book and it also resolves some outstanding issues, responding to some questions that were left unanswered. If autobiographical memory can involve memories of repeated or more generic events, can the field and observer perspective distinction be usefully applied in these cases? If autobiographical memory becomes semanticized over time, do observer perspectives involve more semantic information? What does remembering from-the-outside tell us about the nature of personal memory and the ways we have of getting outside of ourselves? This chapter answers questions such as these and summarizes the progress made by the book on understanding the nature of personal memory and the perspectival mind.

Remembering from the Outside

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher McCarroll
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Perceptual Content ◽  
Visual Perspective ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
External Observer ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Past Event ◽  
Observer Perspective ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Original Event

When recalling events that one personally experienced, one often visualizes the remembered scene as one originally saw it: from an internal visual perspective. Sometimes, however, one sees oneself in the remembered scene: from an external “observer perspective.” In such cases one remembers from-the-outside. This book is about such memories. Remembering from-the-outside is a common yet curious case of personal memory: one views oneself from a perspective one seemingly could not have had at the time of the original event. How can past events be recalled from a detached perspective? How is it that the self is observed? And how can we account for the self-presence of such memories? Indeed, can there be genuine memories recalled from-the-outside? If memory preserves past perceptual content then how can one see oneself from-the-outside in memory? This book disentangles the puzzles posed by remembering from-the-outside. The book develops a dual-faceted approach for thinking about memory, which acknowledges constructive and reconstructive processes at encoding and at retrieval, and it uses this approach to defend the possibility of genuine memories being recalled from-the-outside. In so doing it also elucidates the nature of such memories and sheds light on the nature of personal memory. The book argues that field and observer perspectives are different ways of thinking about a particular past event. Further, by exploring the ways we have of getting outside of ourselves in memory and other cognitive domains, the book sheds light on the nature of our perspectival minds.

Sex Differences in Vivid Memories

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-153
Author(s):  
Hedy White
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Emotional Arousal ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Vivid Memories

There has been little previous research on sex differences in the content and affective evaluations of vivid autobiographical memories. Using a paradigm similar to Rubin and Kozin [1], subjects in Experiment 1 described and evaluated their most vivid personal memory and subjects in Experiment 2 described both their most vivid pleasant and unpleasant memory. Males were more likely than females to report memories having competence themes (in each experiment) and females were more likely than males to report memories involving dating (in Experiment 2). Also, in each experiment females reported experiencing greater emotional arousal than males while writing their descriptions, but sex differences in reported emotional arousal at the time the described event occurred were reduced and not reliable. In Experiment 1, which required subjects to report only their one most vivid memory, both sexes were more likely to describe an unpleasant memory than a pleasant one.

scholarly journals Twin Research, and its Multiple Births and Expressions: A Short, Personal Voyage Through its Scope, History,and Organization

Twin Research ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-317
Author(s):  
Paolo Parisi
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Multiple Births ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
International Scope

AbstractThe notion of twins and twinning involves a multiplicity of meanings and contexts that altogether encompass an unexpectedly wide and significant part of human experience, culture, and endeavor. This cultural polysemy is, to some extent, also an attribute of twin research, which has structured itself around a multiplicity of scientific areas of enquiry, and across time, throughout a multiplicity of births and rebirths, periodically declining and resurging as a phoenix from its ashes. What is proposed is a short voyage through this polysemy and phoenixity of twinning and twin research, and through the structuring process that has accompanied its developments, international scope, and organization. No claim to completeness, but an attempt to dig into personal memory and experience, and share some recollections of the main steps of the process, and particularly the evolution of the journal, the society, the international meetings, and their role in supporting the area's persistence and continuous revivals and adaptations until today.

scholarly journals Francis Crick: A Personal Memory

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 613
Author(s):  
Inder M. Verma
Keyword(s):  
Personal Memory ◽  
Francis Crick

scholarly journals The Materiality of Memory: Affects, Remembering and Food Decisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick J. Fox ◽  
Pam Alldred
Keyword(s):  
Social Production ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Data Resource ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Sociological Inquiry ◽  
The Status ◽  
Future Data ◽  
Food Decisions ◽  
Depth Interviews

Sociology has focused predominantly upon ‘collective memories’ and their impact on social continuity and change, while relegating individual memories to the status of an empirical data resource for research on experiences and identity construction or maintenance. This article suggests, however, that sociology has overlooked the part individual memories play in social production. It applies a post-anthropocentric, new materialist ontology, in which bodies, things, social formations, ideas, beliefs and memories can all possess capacities to materially affect and be affected. To explore the part that personal memory can play in producing the present and hence the future, data from in-depth interviews in a study of adults’ food decision-making and practices are reported. Personal memories deriving from earlier events affect current food practices, and these contribute to the materiality of people’s consumption of food stuffs. The article concludes by reflecting on the wider importance of personal memory for sociological inquiry and memory studies.

scholarly journals Selfie and Narcissism in Young Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-163
Author(s):  
Jyotik Tarak Bhachech
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
Observed Behaviour

Selfie, a commonly observed behaviour, is symbol of virtual identity. Similarly, narcissism as described by grandiose view of oneself, seeking approval and admiration on social media is also frequent. The purpose of this study is exploring selfie taking behaviour and narcissism among young adults. A total 132 subjects were considered for study through an online questionnaire which included demographic variables, selfie taking behaviour and NPI-16 (Narcissistic Personality Inventory -16). The results showed majority of the subjects N = 76 (57.5%) had high narcissism (NPI ≥ 7). Age group 15 to 25 years (p= 0.0200), males, subjects who stayed in city, post graduates or graduate qualification, and married subjects had high narcissism. Using smart phone use more than 5 years (p=0.00942), taking 5 to 10 selfies per day with (p=0.00331), posting selfie for personal memory (p=0.03268), selfie on WhatsApp messenger (p=0.03268) and taking selfie with person alone and selfie taken on specific occasions (p=0.01122), had high narcissism. The conclusion of this study is selfie and narcissism are closely linked among young adults and a matter of psychological wellbeing during personality development.

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