Hans J Markowitsch, Harald Welzer

The Development of Autobiographical Memory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our personality. This book reveals how the development of a conscious self, of an integrated personality and of an autobiographical memory are all intertwined.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781848720206
• ISBN-10: 1848720203
• Artikelnr.: 27429804

Autorenporträt

Hans J. Markowitsch is Professor of Physiological Psychology and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, Germany. Harald Welzer is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research in Essen and Research Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Witten/Herdecke. He also teaches at the University of Hannover and at Emory University Atlanta.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. An Interdisciplinary View of Memory. A New Approach to Viewing
Memory. Zones of Convergence Between Different Sciences. Why Other Animals
Lack Autobiographical Memory. Part 2. Development of Autobiographical
Memory and the Brain. Interdependent Development of Memory and Other
Cognitive and Emotional Functions. Part 3. Autobiographical Memory: A
Lifelong Developmental Task. Development of Learning and Memory: The
Prenatal Period and the First Months of Life. The First Quantum Leap in
Memory Development: The Nine Months' Revolution. The Second Quantum Leap in
Memory Development: Language. Exploring Autobiographical Memory in Young
Children. Autobiographical Memory: A Continuity in Transformation. The Age
at Which Memory Occurs: Results of an Interdisciplinary Research Project on
Remembering and Memory. A Formative Theory of Memory Development. Memory at
Advanced Ages. Autobiographical Memory: A Biocultural Relay Between the
Individual and the Environment.