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Remembering, imagining, false memories & personal meanings

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Conway, Martin A., Loveday, Catherine·2015·Consciousness and Cognition

Abstract

The Self-Memory System encompasses the working self, autobiographical memory and episodic memory. Specific autobiographical memories are patterns of activation over knowledge structures in autobiographical and episodic memory brought about by the activating effect of cues. The working self can elaborate cues based on the knowledge they initially activate and so control the construction of memories of the past and the future. It is proposed that such construction takes place in the remembering-imagining system - a window of highly accessible recent memories and simulations of near future events. How this malfunctions in various disorders is considered as are the implication of what we term the modern view of human memory for notions of memory accuracy. We show how all memories are to some degree false and that the main role of memories lies in generating personal meanings.

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  • People tend to remember better life-episodes that are distinct and personally meaningful and relate to the self or self-consciousness.

    “It has been well demonstrated that people tend to remember better those life-episodes, which are distinct and personally meaningful and, of importance for the present study, relate to the self or self-consciousness [21,24,28,30,124–126].”

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Authors
Conway, M. A., & Loveday, C.
Affiliations
  • City, University of London (GB)
  • University of Westminster (GB)
Corresponding author
Conway, Martin A.
Venue
Consciousness and Cognition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-05
Volume
33
Pages
574-581
ISSN
1053-8100 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2076768746
Cited by
119
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 6
FWCI
8.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Consciousness and Cognition (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster) (acceptedVersion)
  • City Research Online (City University London) (acceptedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
Keywords
autobiographical memory, episodic memory, false memory, memory accuracy, memory construction, personal meaning, memory disorders
MeSH terms
Humans, Imagination, Mental Recall, Memory, Episodic

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