Everyday Memory

This book presents an authoritative overview of memory in everyday contexts. Written by an expert team of international authors, it gathers together research on some of the more neglected but revealing areas of memory, to provide a comprehensive overview of remembering in real life situations. Contributions from leading experts deal with a variety of important questions concerning everyday memory, from under-researched areas such as memory for odours, to more well known areas, like collective memory. Topics covered also include: Beliefs about memory and the metaphors used to discuss memory The relation between self-referent beliefs and actual memory performance The development of autobiographical memory. Everyday Memory summarises current knowledge and presents new interpretations and hypotheses to be explored by future research. It discusses aspects of human memory which are frequently ignored or dealt with only very briefly by ordinary textbooks and as a result will have a broad appeal for researchers and students.

Introduction. By Svein Magnussen and Tore Helstrup Chapter 1. What do people believe about memory, and how do they talk about memory? By Svein Magnussen, Tor Endestad, Asher Koriat and Tore Helstrup, Chapter 2. Visuo-spatial thinking, imagination, and remembering. By Hubert Zimmer, Svein Magnussen, Mary Rudner and Jerker Rönnberg Chapter 3. Action events in everyday life and their remembering. By Hubert Zimmer, Tore Helstrup and Lars-Göran Nilsson Chapter 4. Underestimated sensations: Everyday odour memory in clinical and forensic settings.By Maria Larsson and Annika Melinder Chapter 5. The development of autobiographical memory. A new model. By Gail S. Goodman and Annika Melinder Chapter 6. Collaborative memory: How is our ability to remember affected by interaction with others? By Jan Andersson, Tore Helstrup and Jerker Rönnberg Chapter 7. Memory illusions and false memories in the real world. By Gail Goodman, Svein Magnussen, Jan Andersson, Tor Endestad, Lene Løkken and Cathrine Mostue. Chapter 8. Memory sensitivity in autobiographical memory. By Cesare Cornoldi Rossana De Beni and Tore Helstrup. Chapter 9. Memory experts. Visual learning, wine tasting, orienteering and speech reading. By Rosanna De Beni, Cesare Cornoldi, Maria Larsson, Svein Magnussen and Jerker Rönnberg Chapter 10. Compensatory changes in everyday memory and communication: disabilities, abilities and social context. By Jerker Rönnberg and Annika Melinder Chapter 11. Metacognitive aspects of memory, By Asher Koriat and Tore Helstrup. Chapter 12. Self-referent beliefs about memory and actual performance: Relationships with age and sex. By Lars-Göran Nilsson and Maria Larsson Chapter 13. Memory pathways: Involuntary and voluntary processes in retrieving personal memories. By Tore Helstrup, Rosanna De Beni, Cesare Cornoldi and Asher Koriat.

Svein Magnussen is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway. He has been carrying out research in several areas of cognitive psychology and neuropsychology, with focus on visual perception and visual memory; in recent years he has been engaged in research on eyewitness testimony. He has edited three books and published more than 75 papers in international scientific journals. Tore Helstrup is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway. He is also adjunct professor at the University of Trondheim, Norway. He has taught psychology at all course levels, with learning, memory and problem solving as his main research areas. He has published numerous books and journal articles.