Contributor
Neisser, Ulric.
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:New York : Worth Publishers, c2000.
Descriptionxiv, 529 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:PART I. THE ARGUMENT: 1. Memory: what are the important questions? / Ulric Neisser -- 2. The bankruptcy of everyday memory / Mahzarin R. Banaji, Robert G. Crowder -- 3. A case of misplaced nostalgia / Ulric Neisser -- PART II. SPECIAL OCCASIONS: 4. Personal event memories / David B. Pillemer -- 5. A collection of moments / Esther Salaman-- Flashbulb memories / Roger Brown, James Kulik -- 7. The day they heard about Lincoln / F.W. Colegrove -- 8. Snapshots or benchmarks? / Ulric Neisser -- 9. Phantom flashbulbs / Ulric Neisser, Nicole Harsch -- 10. Remembering the earthquake: direct experience vs. hearing the news / Ulric Neisser, Eugene Winogradk Erik T. Bergman, Charles A. Schreiber, Stephen E. Palmer, Mary Susan Weldon -- PART III. EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES: 11. Transformations of memory in everyday life / Marigold Linton -- 12. Memory day by day / Ulric Neisser -- 13. Long-term memory for a common object / Raymond S. Nickerson, Marilyn Jager Adams -- 14. Professor Sanford's morning prayer / Edmund Clarke Sanford -- 15. On forgetting the locations of things stored in special places / Eugene Winograd, Robert M. Soloway -- 16. Getting what you want by revising what you had / Michael conway, Michael Ross -- 17. Accuracy and distortion in memory for high school grades / Harry P. Bahrich, Lynda K. Hall, Stephanie A. Berger -- 18. Parental recall of child-rearing practices / Lillian Cukier Robbins -- 19. Gender differences in the recall of a close relationship / Michael Ross, Diane Holmberg -- PART IV. UNDER OATH: 20. Realistic experiments / William Stern -- 21. Eyewitness testimony / Robert Buckout -- 22. Memory for faces and the circumstances of encounter / Evan Brown, Kenneth Deffenbacher, William Sturgill -- 23. Preschoolers remember Sam Stone / Michelle D. Leichtman, Stephen J. Ceci -- 24. A case study of eyewitness memory of a crime / John C. Yuille, Judith L. Cutshull -- 25. John Dean's memory / Ulric Neisser -- PART V. EARLY CHILDHOOD: 26. An early memory from Goethe's autobiography / Sigmund Freud -- 27. On memory and childhood amnesia / Ernest G. Schachtel -- 28. The origins of autobiographical memory / Katherine Nelson -- 29. The offset of childhood amnesia / M.J. Eacott, R.A. Crawley -- 30. False memories of childhood experiences / Ira E. Hyman, Jr., Troy H. Husband, F. James Billings -- PART VI. TRAUMA: REAL AND IMAGINED: 31. The memory of concentration camp survivors / Willem A. Wagenaar, Jop Groeneweg -- 32. Handcuffed in history to Tony C. / Dave Anderson -- 33. A genuine reovered memory / Jonathan W. Schooler, Miriam Bendiksen, Zara Ambadar -- 34. A retractor's story / Mark Pendergrast -- 35. The memory wars / Ira E. Hyman, Jr. -- PART VII. PERFORMANCES: 36. Very long-term memory for prose and verse / David C. Rubin -- 37. The mnemonic feat of the "Shass Pollak" / George M. Stratton -- 38. Oral poetry in Yugoslavia / Albert B. Lord -- 39. Tribal history in Liberia / Warren L. D'AZevedo -- 40. Totemic knowledge in New Guinea / Gregory Bateson -- 41. Literacy, cultural familiarity, and "intelligence" as determinants of story recall / Ernest Frederick Dube -- 42. Two approaches to learning a theatrical script / Helga Noice, Tony Noice -- 43. Conversational remembering / Ira E. Hyman, Jr. -- PART VIII. SPECIAL PEOPLE: 44. Memorists / Ulric Neisser -- 45. The mind of a mnemonist / A.R. Luria -- 46. The second mnemonist / Earl Hunt, Tom Love -- 47. Rajan, master of Pi / Charles P. Thompson, Thaddeus Cowan, Jerome Frieman, Rajan S. Mahadevan, Rodney Vogl, Jeanne Frieman -- 48. An adult eidetiker / Charles F. Stromeyer III -- 49. Toscanini's memory / George R. Marek -- 50. An exceptional memory / Ian M.L. Hunter.
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