Involuntary Memory

Mace, John (Herausgeber)

New Perspectives in Cognitive Psychology

1. Auflage April 2007
240 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3638-9

John Wiley & Sons

Involuntary memory was identified by the pioneering memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus more than a century ago, but it was not until very recently that cognitive psychologists began to study this memory phenomenon. This book is the first to examine key topics and cutting-edge research in involuntary memory.

* Discusses topics such as involuntary memories in everyday life, across the life-span, and in the laboratory; the special ways in which involuntary memories sometimes manifest themselves and a number of theoretical treatments of the topic.

* Presents innovative research that not only represents the starting point of the study of involuntary memory, but also places it in such broader topics as autobiographical memory, consciousness and memory, aging and memory, implicit and explicit memory, depression, and psychosis.

1. Involuntary memory: Concept and theory.

2. Involuntary autobiographical memories: Speculations, findings
and an attempt to integrate them.

3. Does involuntary remembering occur during voluntary
remembering?.

4. The role of involuntary memories in posttraumatic disorder
and psychosis.

5. Effects of Age on Involuntary Autobiographical Memories.

6. Cues to the Gusts of Memory.

7. Can we elicit involuntary autobiographical memories in the
laboratory?.

8. Interaction between retrieval intentionality and emotional
intensity: Investigating the neural correlates of experimentally
induced involuntary memories.

9. How deliberate, spontaneous and unwanted memories emerge in a
computational model of consciousness.

10. Three variations of the unexpected.

"The wide range of topics covered makes this book appealing for a broad audience, of basic and applied researchers.... The writing is generally clear and easily accessible for final year undergraduates.... Useful for researchers interested in specific populations or topics." (Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2009)

"Mace does offer the public a comprehensive text that provides one of the most integrative works on involuntary memory. This book puts forth the most groundbreaking research done so far on involuntary memory and would benefit students and professionals eager to dive into one of the most complex grooves of the human psyche." (PsycCRITIQUES)

"This first-of-its-kind book point[s] out that much of the research ... has been published in the last ten years. Therein lies much of the book's appeal." (North American Journal of Psychology)

John H. Mace is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Haven.

J. Mace, University of New Haven