MemPhone: From personal memory aid to community memory sharing using mobile tagging

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.

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Remembering from the Outside

10.1093/oso/9780190674267.001.0001 ◽

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.

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Sex Differences in Vivid Memories

Imagination Cognition and Personality ◽

10.2190/k3dq-20bh-b4v1-1jnh ◽

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.

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A time- and memory-sharing executive program for quick-response, on-line applications

10.1145/1464013.1464035 ◽

1965 ◽

Author(s):

James W. Forgie

Keyword(s):

Quick Response ◽

On Line ◽

Memory Sharing ◽

Executive Program

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

Twin Research ◽

10.1375/twin.7.4.309 ◽

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.

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