Recent research in cognitive psychology has emphasised the uses, or functions, of autobiographical memory. Theoretical and empirical approaches have focused on a three-function model: autobiographical memory serves self, directive, and social functions. In the reminiscence literature other taxonomies and additional functions have been postulated. We examined the relationships between functions ...

We present a simple, biologically-inspired mechanism by which synthetic entities can be made to form social relationships with each other. We describe an interactive multi-agent system, based on the social behavior of the gray wolf (Canis lupus), that features this mechanism of social relationship formation. This installation, shown at SIGGRAPH 2001, allowed several participants to direct semi-...

People constantly talk about past experiences. Burgeoning psychological research has examined the role of communication in remembering by placing rememberers in conversational settings. In reviewing this work, we first discuss the benefits of collaborative remembering (transactive memory and collaborative facilitation) and its costs (collaborative inhibition, information sampling biases, and au...

In social situations, we encounter information transferred in firsthand (egocentric) and secondhand (allocentric) communication contexts. However, the mechanism by which an individual distinguishes whether a past interaction occurred in an egocentric versus allocentric situation is poorly understood. This study examined the neural bases for encoding memories of social interactions through exper...

Rhesus monkeys gather much of their knowledge of the social world through visual input and may preferentially represent this knowledge in the visual modality. Recognition of familiar faces is clearly advantageous, and the flexibility and utility of primate social memory would be greatly enhanced if visual memories could be accessed cross-modally either by visual or auditory stimulation. Such cr...

Human memory does not record and store information like technical devices. Rather, memory can deviate in various ways from the original experience of an event. It is fragile and potentially unreliable. Some deviations from the original experience can be attributed to forgetting or trace decay, while other deviations reflect systematic biases and distortions (e.g., McDermott & Chan, 2003; Schact...

Although most of us consume news reports about public events day by day, little is known how memories are remembered in everyday life. Across three studies, we examined voluntary (deliberately retrieved) and involuntary (spontaneously arising) event directly comparing them with personal memories. In particular, the relative frequency memories, correlations individual differences measures, emoti...

Objectives: The aim of this research is to design a neuro-cognitive program, based on dysfunctions and alterations of some neural circuits in dyslexics. The visual and auditory working memories in pre-schoolers were evaluated with this program in order to early screening for dyslexia. Methods: This study is a longitudinal descriptive research. A total of 259 randomly selected pre-schoolers, wi...