Understanding autobiographical memory: theories and approaches

1. Introduction / Dorthe Berntsen and David C. Rubin

Part I. Approaches to the Study of Autobiographical Memory: 2. The basic system model of autobiographical memory / David C. Rubin; 3. Identity, emotion, and the social matrix of autobiographical memory: a psychoanalytic narrative view / Tilmann Habermas; 4. On the nature of autobiographical memory / Martin A. Conway and Laura Jobson; 5. Reflections on autobiographical memory / Alan Baddeley

Part II. Neural Studies of Autobiographical Memory: 6. The contribution of research on autobiographical memory to past and present theories of memory consolidation / Morris Moscovitch; 7. Functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory / Peggy L. St Jacques

Part III. Social and Cultural Aspects of Autobiographical Memory: 8. Of sins and virtues: memory and collective identity / William Hirst, Alexandra Cuc, and Dana Wohl; 9. Historically defined autobiographical periods: their origins and implications / Norman R. Brown, Tia G.B. Hansen, Peter J. Lee, Sarah A. Vanderveen, and Fredrick G. Conrad; 10. Directive functions of autobiographical memory: theory and method / David B. Pillemer and Kie J. Kuwabara

Part IV. Development of Autobiographical Memory from Infancy to Old Age: 11. The life I once remembered: the waxing and waning of early memories / Patricia J. Bauer; 12. Subjective perspective and personal timeline in the development of autobiographical memory / Robyn Fivush; 13. Theory and research in autobiographical memory: a lifespan developmental perspective / Joseph M. Fitzgerald and Carissa L. Broadbridge

Part V. Evolution and Basic Processes of Autobiographical Memory: 14. Evolutionary origins of autobiographical memory: a retrieval hypothesis / Merlin Donald; 15. Spontaneous recollections: involuntary autobiographical memories are a basic mode of remembering / Dorthe Berntsen; 16. Autobiographical memory and future thinking / Arnaud D'Argembeau

Part VI. Discussion: 17. Understanding autobiographical memory: an ecological theory / Dorthe Berntsen and David C. Rubin.