The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system

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“We further hypothesized that brain areas selectively active during episodic memory recall would mediate specific aspects of remembering one's own past experiences including those related to self-schema (Conway and Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Gallagher, 2000) and mental time travel (Tulving, 2002).”

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“Thus episodic memory recall can be conceptually divided into a number of component processes including a sense of subjective time (Tulving, 2002), self-processing (Conway and Pleydell-Pearce, 2000), visual imagery (Rubin et al., 2003), narrative structure (Rubin et al., 2003), retrieval of semantic information (Wheeler et al., 1997) and multi-modal details (Wheeler et al., 2000; Gottfried et al., 2004), and feelings of familiarity (Wagner et al., 2005).”

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“Recollection of this type of memory is widely accepted to be a reconstructive process”

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“Given this, it would seem reasonable to propose that real memories are reconstructed along very similar lines to the way imagined events are constructed, dovetailing with the idea that memory is (re)constructive in nature (Bartlett, 1932; Schacter et al., 1998; Conway and Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Rubin et al., 2003; Hassabis and Maguire, 2007; Schacter and Addis, 2007).”

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“Moreover, by utilising rich imaginary memories as a well-matched comparison task we were able to isolate processes specific to episodic memory, such as the use of self-schema (Conway and Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Gallagher, 2000), a sense of familiarity and mental time travel (Tulving, 2002).”

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“Dissociation is thought to interfere with a coherent encoding of salient events [35–37], leading to a fragmentation (compartmentalization) of memory”

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“Perceptual information has been identified as belonging to the lowest or most specific level in an influential model of autobiographical knowledge that incorporates a hierarchy of specificity: lifetime periods, general events, and event-specific knowledge (M. A. Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000).”

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“These effects include a loosening of associations, fragmentation of thought, and heightened distractibility.”

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“High densities of cannabinoid receptors in the hippocampus and cortex have been suggested as playing a role in the cognitive effects of cannabis (26).”

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“In addition, Level 2 cognition is capable of retrieving prior autobiographical experiences and connecting these with new experiences in a coherent self-memory system (Conway and Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Kuhl et al., 2015).”

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“Importantly, autobiographical memories do not exist in isolation but are integrated into larger and hierarchically structured units.”

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“More specifically, autobiographical memories can often be condensed into general events, which are related to certain lifetime periods, which are in turn related to personally important themes (Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000;Conway, 2005).”

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“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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“However, the interaction between self-concept and memory might be dynamic and reciprocal, as the retrieval of negative events may influence the person's sense of who they are currently (Conway & Pleydell-Price, 2000).”

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“Thus, the vulnerable narcissists' current selfconcept reconstructs past memories and the past reconstructs their self (Conway & Pleydell-Price, 2000).”