Autobiographical memory is a uniquely human system that integrates memories of past experiences into an overarching life narrative. In this review, I extend social-cultural models of autobiographical memory development and present theory and research that demonstrates that (a) autobiographical memory is a gradually developing system across childhood and adolescence that depends on the developme...

It has been widely acknowledged in the areas of human memory and cognition that behaviour and emotion are essentially grounded by autobiographic knowledge. In this paper we propose an overall framework of human autobiographic memory for modelling believable virtual characters in narrative story-telling systems and role-playing computer games. We first lay out the background research of autobiog...

Current views about the organization of human memory make strikingly different predictions about the integrity of remote autobiographical memory following damage to the medial temporal lobe. We have carried out a detailed analysis of narrative content in memory-impaired patients for whom neuropsychological and neuroanatomical information is available. All eight patients were able to recall deta...

It has been suggested that similar neural mechanisms may underlie the affective modulation of both recollective and perceptual experience. A case is reported of a patient who has bilateral amygdala damage and marked impairment in the perception of emotion, particularly fear. The patient DR and 10 healthy control subjects (matched for school leaving age, intelligence quotient, and non-emotional ...

Previous experiments indicate that prosody may facilitate memory for spoken utterances. Memory load, however, has not been systematically manipulated and may interact with such facilitating effects. Therefore, subjects were asked to listen to connected prose passages between one to five intonation phrases long and to repeat as much of each narrative as possible. Stimuli were normal productions ...

My poetic inquiry originated from reflecting on Ken Plummer’s (2019) book, Narrative Power, where Plummer insightfully discusses the intertwined nature of narratives with our lives. poem is about power to shape lives (i.e., toward suffering or liberation) and role human agency in giving life narratives. interest rests point between there a possibility for change, which humans are key players. T...

This research aims to elucidate the reason behind decline of villagers’ enthusiasm toward Ulur-ulur ritual. ritual is a surviving agrarian that was initially an integral part and executed by four villages, including Village Sawo, Ngentrong, Gedangan, Gamping Tulungagung Regency, as manifestation gratitude for water Buret Lake sustaining local’s agricultural activity. Historically, this dying in...

Metaphoric frames are prominently featured in public discourse. They highlight certain aspects of the target issues they are used to describe, thereby encouraging specific patterns of inference. Our goal was to test whether they would influence memory as well. Building off prior work, we contrasted two metaphors for crime: virus and beast. In a pilot study, we identified specific causes, exampl...