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Tada, Erika. "Recollection /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/7795.
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Scott, Dominic. "Recollection and its rivals." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257010.
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Murphy, Jenna. "Memory recollection through architecture /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2005. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Trezise, Bryoni English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Performing postmemories: recollection in crisis." Awarded by:University of New South Wales, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/39173.
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This thesis examines the problematic status and functioning of memory in a variety of contemporary contexts such as judicial cases, popular culture, television, memorials and museums. In doing this it develops an account of the culture of postmemory, originally defined by Marianne Hirsch as the experience of descendents of survivors of trauma, particularly second generation Holocaust survivors, who inherit that trauma from their family forbears. From Hirsch, postmemory can be understood as the possibility of remembering an event that one has not actually experienced. This thesis extends Hirsch???s notion of postmemory to account for a wider range of contemporary memory practices. These occur beyond family relationships to manifest in institutional and discursive sites such as the archive, the museum, the narrative and the tourist attraction. This thesis argues that it is in these sites that memory can be seen to be breaking away from its referential function. Instead of recollection, memory becomes the performance of slippage and the undoing of reference in which the fictive and the historical merge. The thesis plays out the ensuing crisis in recollection in scenes and actions of a theatre of the postmemorial ??? one characterised less by the familiar linear narratives of memory as by multiple and contradictory narratives formed through the operations of chance, reflexivity and ambivalence working within the contemporary cultural sphere. Performing Postmemories re-imagines the performances of contemporary memory culture and examines its master texts.
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Walther, Herbert. "Kurt Rothschild: A Personal Recollection." Oesterreichische Nationalbank, 2014. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5275/1/Walther.pdf.
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Velazquez, Cardenas Jose Humberto. "Conjoint Recall and Phantom Recollection." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195047.
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Explaining false memory has been a strong resource to understand how memory works in general. More than two decades of research on false memories show that false memories are a complex phenomenon that made most of the established theories of memory insufficient. Phantom recollection is a specific part of the false memory phenomena that consists of a memory illusion in which subjects have a false recollective phenomenology that resembles true recollections. Two experiments following DRM's paradigm served to study phantom recollection in adults, manipulating variables such as Level of processing, Type of voice, Retrieval time and Repetition. The three proper instructions of a mathematical model named Conjoint Recall were applied in order to have separate measures of the phantom recollection manifestations. Ninety American and 90 Mexican university students participated. The results of the experiments disconfirm IAR explanations of phantom recollection, but confirm most of Fuzzy-trace-theory's assumptions on this phenomenon (Brainerd, Payne, Wright, and Reyna, 2003).
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Kurilla, Brian P. "Processing fluency affects subjective claims of recollection." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Croucher, Camilla Jane. "Impact and the recollection of emotional images." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612942.
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Herron, Jane Elizabeth. "Event-related potential correlates of recollection and familiarity." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271136.
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Gavie, Dan, and Anders Gran. "Zeals - Predicting and Designing for anticipation and recollection." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22865.
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Zeals är en mobil applikation där användaren tillåts att kollaborativt uppleva förväntan och erinran inför och efter en händelse. Genom att användaren bidrar med media som hon själv definerat som relevant för händelsen kan mobiltelefonen fungera som ett medium där kopplingar och relevans är upp till användaren. Parallellt har ett designverktyg för användarjämförelser tagits fram - Persona Activity Framework. PAF syftar till att genom ett scenario visa skillnader och likheter mellan tilltänkta användare.This master thesis in interaction design deals with two major scopes. First, it will describe how a design concept regarding events is initiated. Second, and parallel, a practical tool for user representations will be formed and used to illustrate a foundation for design. By providing examples of projects related to how anticipation and recollection can be experienced we highlight our work area. In addition to this, we present tools that we consider beneficial regarding user insights. Out of these two fields we describe a process where a mobile phone application is created situated within industrial borders. The result of this process consequently consist of two parts each depending on the other. The application, Zeals, demonstrates both how anticipation and recollection can be experienced. The second part of the end result, PAF, demonstrates how we have represented users and concludes that it can be used in other projects as well. Hence, our final result needs to be interpreted depending on design approach and it’s nature.
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Carlin, Richard Michael. "Exploratory study on the process of early recollection interpretation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25361.
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This study explored the reasoning process of interpreters during the process of early recollection (ER) interpretation, and in the identification of central life style theme using Mosak's typology system (1971). ERs from ten subjects were collected using a guestionnaire format and distributed to six interpreters. Three interpreters were experienced in ER interpretation and three received two hours of training in ER interpretation prior to the study. All interpreters were requested to record their impressions and thoughts during the interpretive process on audio tape for later analysis, and to assign a primary and secondary life style theme to each subject using Mosak's typologies. The results of this study provided information about the cues found in ERs that seem to guide interpreters, the effect of interpreter style on the final outcome, and the reliability of inter-judge agreement on life style theme from ER interpretation. The results showed that training in ER interpretation immediately provided the trainees with an ability to identify the perceptual schema of the subjects but it did not give them the same skill possessed by the experienced clinicians in metaphor analysis or an understanding of Mosak's typology system. Similarities and differences between the experienced clinicians and the trainees were analyzed.Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Hay, Janine Frances. "Separating habit and recollection in young and elderly adults." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ30092.pdf.
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Van, der Wal Ruurd Willem Ernst. "An elusive archive : three trans men and photographic recollection." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80160.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The archive as mnemonic device and taxonomic structure plays a significant role in the visualisation of identity. This thesis draws on the example of the personal photographic archives of three trans men to suggest ways of understanding archives as discursive and visual practices through which fluctuating narratives of self can be uncovered, traced, erased, renegotiated and fictionalised. This thesis considers how these participants negotiate the roles of author, archivist and photographer in the creation of their personal photographic archives, and how such archives intersect with discourses on the social, somatic and political.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die argief speel as beide ‘n mnemoniese apparaat en ‘n taksonomiese struktuur ‘n beduidende rol in die voorstelling van identiteit. In hierdie tesis word die fotografiese argiewe van drie trans mans bespreek om maniere voor te stel waarop argiewe as diskursiewe en visuele praktyke funksioneer waardeur veranderlike narratiewe van self ontbloot, nagespoor, uitgewis, heroorweeg en verbeel kan word. Hierdie studie oorweeg die manier waarop hierdie deelnemers die rolle van outeur, argivaris en fotograaf onderhandel tydens die skep van hul persoonlike fotografiese argiewe, sowel as die wyse waarop hierdie argiewe as kruispunte dien waar diskoerse rondom die sosiale, liggaamlike en politiese bymekaarkom.
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Murray, Jamie G. "Associative recognition : exploring the contributions of recollection and familiarity." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21663.
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Episodic memory refers to the storage and retrieval of information about events in our past. According to dual process models, episodic memory is supported by familiarity which refers to the rapid and automatic sense of oldness about a previously encoded stimulus, and recollection which refers to the retrieval of contextual information, such as spatial, temporal or other contextual details that bring a specific item to mind. To be clear, familiarity is traditionally assumed to support recognition of item information, whereas recollection supports the recognition of associative information. Event Related Potential (ERP) studies provide support for dual process models, by demonstrating qualitatively distinct patterns of neural activity associated with familiarity (Mid-Frontal old/new effect) and recollection (Left-Parietal old/new effect). In the current thesis, ERPs were used to address two important questions regarding associative recognition – namely, the function of the neural signal supporting recollection and whether familiarity can contribute to the retrieval of novel associative information. The first series of experiments was aimed at addressing how recollection operates by employing a recently developed continuous source task designed to directly measure the accuracy of retrieval success. To date, the function of recollection has been fiercely debated, with some arguing that recollection reflects the operation of a continuous retrieval process, whereby test cues always elicit some information from memory. Alternatively, recollection may reflect the operation of a thresholded process that allows for retrieval failure, whereby test cues sometimes elicit no information from memory at all. In the current thesis, the Left Parietal effect was found to be sensitive to the precision of memory responses when recollection succeeded, but was entirely absent when recollection failed. The result clarifies the nature of the neural mechanism underlying successful retrieval whilst also providing novel evidence in support of threshold models of recollection. The second series of experiments addressed whether familiarity could contribute to the retrieval of novel associative information. Recent associative recognition studies have suggested that unitization (whereby multi-component stimuli are encoded as a single item rather than as a set of associated parts) can improve episodic memory by increasing the availability of familiarity during retrieval. To date, however, ERP studies have failed to provide any evidence of unitization for novel associations, whereas behavioural support for unitization is heavily reliant on model specific measures such as ROC analysis. Over three separate associative recognition studies employing unrelated word pairs, the magnitude of the Mid-Frontal old/new effect was found to be modulated by encoding instructions designed to manipulate the level of unitization. Importantly, the results also suggest that different encoding strategies designed to manipulate the level of unitization may be more successful than others. Finally, the results also revealed that differences in behavioural performance and modulation of the Mid-Frontal old/new effect between unitized and non-unitized instructions is greater for unrelated compared to related word pairs. In essence, the results suggest that unitization is better suited to learning completely novel associations as opposed to word pairs sharing a pre-existing conceptual relationship. Overall, the data presented in this thesis supports dual process accounts of episodic memory, suggesting that at a neural level of analysis, recollection is both thresholded and variable, whilst also supporting the assumption that familiarity can contribute to successful retrieval of novel associative information. The results have important implications for our current understanding of cognitive decline and the development of behavioural interventions aimed at alleviating associative deficits.
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Parks, Colleen M. "Noncriterial recollection in young and older adults the errects of defining recollection specifically in the remember-know and dual process signal detection paradigms /." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2003. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06072004-131329/unrestricted/parks%5Fcolleen%5Fm%5F200405%5Fphd.pdf.
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Henry-Thommes, Christoph. "Recollection, memory and imagination selected autobiographical novels of Vladimir Nabokov." Heidelberg Winter, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2838318&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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King, Cynthia Marilyn. "Effects of headings on the written recall and organization of expository text in grades 5 through 10 with emphasis on grades 7 and 8." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25429.
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This study investigated the effects of headings and text organization on grade 5 through 10 students' written recall of expository prose passages written in a classification/description mode. Emphasis was placed on the results from students in grades 7 and 8. This study was a component of a three part study. The other two parallel studies emphasized grades 5 and 6 (Stables, 1985) and 9 and 10 (Gibbs, 1985). Each subject read and recalled two passages: one written at his or her grade level and one written at a low readability level. Performance on the written recalls from passages with headings and without headings was examined on the basis of the number of superordinate and subordinate ideas recalled, the superordinate and subordinate organization, and the format. Developmental trends were investigated by including the data from the two parallel studies (Gibbs, 1985; Stables, 1985).
There was some evidence that headings had a significant positive effect on the number of superordinate ideas recalled from a passage of low readability. Some significant differences indicated negative effects by headings. The majority of differences, however, were not significant. Developmental trends in grades 5 through 10 were noted in the number of ideas recalled on a low readability passage and the format used on the written recalls. Implications for instruction and suggestions for further research are discussed.Education, Faculty of
Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of
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Couch, Thomas. "Exploring the processes of recollection using eye tracking and parametric fMRI." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/exploring-the-processes-of-recollection-using-eye-tracking-and-parametric-fmri(10ea7549-2b4a-42ef-9031-1218002c41d1).html.
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Recollection, the process by which an item provokes the retrieval of associated information stored in the brain, is a key component of recognition memory. It is explored in this thesis through the use of a paradigm designed to allow the neural correlates of amount recalled to be identified through parametric fMRI analysis. A series of experiments were carried out during the development and optimisation of this paradigm in order to ensure that the various demands of this analysis were met. Subsequently this paradigm was applied during an fMRI experiment which provided data from both the encoding and retrieval stages of recollection.Whilst the development work was chiefly concerned with producing a suitable task design for the parametric fMRI analysis, these experiments provided some interesting results in their own right. The task design, which required participants to associate multiple item types within a story context, showed that there are significant differences in the frequency with which different stimuli are recollected. Participants were found to be particularly poor at recollecting faces whilst words were also shown to be recollected less frequently than either object or animal picture stimuli. A possible explanation for these differences may be related to the picture superiority effect although eye-tracking data collected from these experiments demonstrates large differences in viewing behaviour between different target stimulus types which is not correlated with later recall success. The amount of time participants spend engaging with the highly contextual scene item does predict later recall success.The fMRI analysis (Chapter 5) carried out during the encoding and retrieval stages of recollection found a variety of regions exhibiting a positive linear relationship with recollection at both these stages. This result provides support for the cortical reinstatement hypothesis of recollection despite the fact that the hippocampus only showed parametric modulation of activity during retrieval. It is proposed that parahippocampal activity during encoding and retrieval supports the recollection of contextual information whilst the same pattern of activity in parietal regions related to recollection may reflect the reinstatement of the global image of the story created during the encoding task.
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Tsunematsu, Naomi 1966. "Japanese women's wartime patriotic organizations and postwar memoirs: Reality and recollection." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278444.
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Japanese women have often described themselves as passive "victims" of the Pacific War, and in their wartime memoirs (senso taikenki) they have related their suffering in the hope of preventing future wars. However, when we closely examine Japanese women' s activities and beliefs during the war, we find that women were not necessarily completely detached from wartime efforts. Many women actively and even enthusiastically cooperated with the state. Even if they did not actively fight on the battlefield and kill people on foreign soil, many women were part of the total war structure, helping to stir up the patriotism that drove Japanese to fight in the war. This thesis looks at how Japanese women, through patriotic women' s organizations, were involved in the Pacific War, and what they actually believed during the war, in contrast with their recollections of the war in their senso taikenki.
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Oleson, Mark D. "Adolescents' Recollection of Early Physical Contact: Implications for Attachment and Intimacy." DigitalCommons@USU, 1996. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2466.
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Three hundred seventy-six college students responded to a measure designed to examine retrospective accounts of the physical affection received during early childhood. The study looked exclusively from the perspective of the adolescent. Assessing the importance of touch in human development, and the role it plays in adult attachment and the ability to form and maintain close and intimate relations with others was the purpose of the study.
Six separate measures were used to assess the role of touch in adolescent development: three items from Gupta and Schork to assess physical affection (touch); Simpson's attachment style measure; Gerlsma, Arrindell, Van der Veen, and Emmelkamp's parental warmth measure; and Rosenthal, Gurney, and Moore's Erikson Psychosocial Inventory Scale to assess intimacy. Also, one-item measures to assess trust and parents' marital satisfaction were all utilized in this study.
Results confirmed statistically significant relationships between parental warmth and touch, warmth and attachment, and intimacy and attachment. Related literature supported the findings of the study and point to the importance of parental warmth and touch in early childhood for competent social and emotional development during adolescence. Implications of the results and possible areas of future research are discussed.
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Colby, M. Amanda Earl Weaver Charles A. "Do actors or observers make better eyewitnesses?" Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/2683.
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Schooler, Jonathan Wolf. "Verbalizing non-verbal memories : some things are better left unsaid /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9054.
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Holmes, Amanda E. Weaver Charles A. "Assessing the phenomenology of eyewitness memory for product identification." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5027.
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Doyle, Karen Elizabeth. "A test for the configural nature of episodic-like memory." Click here for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1564022521&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Wood, Noelle L. "Memory for recent words : a matter of short-term memory storage or long-term distinctiveness? /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9737848.
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Waack, Bridget M. "Post event misinformation effect, source strength, and eyewitness memory conformity." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407496841&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Koenig, Laura. "Development of recognition memory : process dissociation of recollection and familiarity in children." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/5154.
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There is an extensive debate in the adult literature on whether recognition memory can better be explained by a single- or a dual-process account. Single-process accounts assume that a single memory strength signal underlies recognition. Dual-process accounts propose two independent processes, namely recollection (slow and associated with contextual details) and familiarity (fast and automatic). The aim of this dissertation was to advance this debate using a cognitive developmental approach. By investigating age-related changes of recognition memory across childhood as a function of theoretically motivated experimental manipulations, predictions drawn from single- and dual-process models of recognition memory were tested. We adapted the Process Dissociation Paradigm (PDP; Jacoby, 1991) to disentangle processes underlying recognition memory in 5-, 7-, and 11-year-olds and adults using a Dual-Process Signal Detection cognitive modelling approach (DPSD; Yonelinas, 1996). Experiments 1 – 6 demonstrated that 5-year-olds are able to recollect items based on perceptual details. Consistent with dual-process theory, across all age groups a response time limit decreased recollection while leaving familiarity unaffected (Chapter 2). Converging evidence consistent with dissociations during childhood was found after repeated item presentation (Chapter 3). Finally, after a thorough empirical validation of our approach, the new paradigm was used to investigate the developmental perceptual to semantic shift (Chapter 4). These findings, using a double dissociation logic, have advanced the theoretical debate on the nature of recognition memory by showing that one process is insufficient to account for the developmental and experimental findings reported here. Recollection and familiarity follow different developmental trajectories and are affected by encoding and retrieval manipulations (i.e., repetition and time limits). This provides a challenge for existing theories of recognition memory.
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Leibowitz, Vicki, and Vicki dan@gmail com. "Making memory space: recollection and reconciliation in post apartheid South African architecture." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091022.114900.
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Post Apartheid South Africa presents a fascinating platform from which to discuss the complexity and contestations around the creation of memory space. Through examination of multiple modes of dealing with memorials and museums, (the traditional and conventionally understood emblems of authoritative memory), this thesis seeks to explicate how memory is addressed in a society that is attempting to come to terms with a recent past. In so doing, it aims to understand how memory becomes codified into architectural space, how that physical manifestation may be altered over time, and examines some of the complexity inherent in creating new spaces that seek to represent an often volatile and contested past. The traditional palette of the architect: materiality, site, aesthetics and form all contribute to creation of new national narratives and in so doing, reveal the difficulties in revising existing memories as they are articulated through architecture. In order to appreciate how South Africa specifically is approaching memory, I have established a taxonomy that highlights differing modes for dealing with the physicalisation of recollection. Within each case study, questions arise over the success and failures of each modality, which lead to broader discussions about opportunities for gaining insight into how memory space may be addressed in other countries, those facing a colonial past or coming to terms with recent memory themselves. While it does not present a comparative analysis, this thesis seeks to illuminate some of the difficulties inherent in the creation and maintenance of memory space that accurately reflects the population it purports to serve, while generating 'meaningful' architecture. The study is broken down into the following components: TOPPLING TOTEMS The Voortrekker Monument is an examination into existing architectures of an out-dated regime, questioning how meaning is ascribed to architectural space and seeking to understand how easily that significance may be revised. EXPERIENTIAL MUSEUMS The Apartheid Museum presents case studies of how memory is conveyed meaningfully to contemporary society, looking at the international language of museums, questioning how specificity is lost in a desire to situate the past on a world stage. The economy and commoditisation of memory forms a central component of this study. CANNIBALISED SPACE The Constitutional Court offers an investigation into the repatriation of spaces potent as sites of trauma. It examines how sites of trauma become significant places for recollection and presents spatial opportunities for a form of rehabilitation of those sites. SOCIALLY INTEGRATED MEMORY The Red Location Museum presents a study of a new mode of creating official narratives of recollection within a society resistant to official narratives. It looks at architectural solutions to situating memory within the daily life of a society rather then distinguishing official memorials by setting them and by association recollection apart. Ultimately through an examination of the treatment of memory space in South Africa, issues around the complexity of dealing with memory in general become apparent. The aim of this thesis is to draw out some of these narratives so that they may elucidate some of the broader relationships between architecture and collective memory.
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Holmes, Constance Elizabeth. "Trials and Verdicts: Narratives of Recollection in The Good Soldier and Lolita." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3661.
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This dissertation will apply the structure of a legal trial’s procedures to two
Modernist novels: Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (1915) and Vladimir
Nabokov’s Lolita (1955). These novels position themselves as renderings of legal
proceedings, the written memoriam of metaphorical trials conducted by first person
narrators who alternatively and simultaneously function as Plaintiff’s counsel, Defense
Counsel and finally as witnesses to the events of the story. All of these personae reveal
evidence and testimony presented in the forum of a trial of the central characters who
recollect legal events and whose narrations develop moral questions. Thus these
narrations are the court record, from which there is no appeal, culminating in not only
persuasive arguments about guilt and innocence of the central characters, but also
demanding that a verdict or moral judgment be rendered by the reader of these behaviors
and values of the individuals as well as the societies which these authors critique in their
novels.
Ford Madox Ford in The Good Soldier (1915) and Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita
(1955) create fictional artifacts which instill impressions of human life and present
specific revelations of human nature in their art. Their narratives explain certain events in
a temporal order, which communicate to readers a fictional world, its participants, and
especially their emotions. These particular novels are early and late examples of
Modernism, and are very different from one another, yet both illustrate the characteristics
that so clearly define the Modern novel: art’s ability to engage not just the mind but the
senses; the reader does not just read, but rather becomes immersed in the feelings of the
characters in the story. The reader feels the dynamics between the characters through the
narrative presentation as closely as possible to his or her being actually present in the
fictionally created world of the novel.
Both novels present their stories in a thrice-told frame that allows the
character/narrators to explore epistemology and justifications for their acts or inaction.
These stories are recollections, so that each character/narrator is remembering his
respective narrative after the facts; these novels are unique for this timing.
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Leverett, Kim Rebecca. "Narratives of Grace| Divine Recollection in the Aftermath of Childhood Sexual Abuse." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10599433.
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Childhood sexual assault impacts individuals in the most intimate of ways and is considered one of the most destructive forms of trauma an individual can endure. Clinicians and researchers alike have acknowledged a range of physical, psychobiological, and spiritual outcomes related to childhood sexual abuse. Spiritually, sexual abuse can be so annihilating it has been referred to as soul murder. Because the abuse assails the victim’s spirit, sense of self, and value, the healing process is essentially a spiritual one. This narrative, phenomenological study takes place where deeply painful experiences of childhood sexual abuse meet with profound spiritual experiences. Eight participants share their stories of this convergence in their lives and what it has come to mean for them. This research aspired to explore the phenomenon of affirmative religious/spiritual or grace-filled experiences through narratives of adults who suffered childhood sexual abuse. This research was guided by the following questions: How do moments of grace (spiritual/religious experiences) impact the healing of trauma for survivors of childhood sexual abuse? How is the impact of such trauma mediated or attenuated by these grace-filled experiences, both through human relational contact as horizontal grace, as well as that beyond the scope of humanity—vertical grace? Keywords: childhood sexual abuse, trauma, spirituality, grace, narrative, healing
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Paterson, Helen M. Psychology Faculty of Science UNSW. "Co-Witnesses and the effects of discussion on eyewitness memory." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Psychology, 2004. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20663.
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The research presented in this thesis was designed to investigate the effects of co-witness information on the accuracy and completeness of eyewitness memory. Co-witness information is defined as information that one eyewitness conveys to another about an event that they both observed. Very little research has focused on co-witness discussion, so the first two studies surveyed real eyewitnesses and police officers to determine how often witnesses discuss the event with one another. The results from these surveys suggested that co-witnesses commonly talk about the event with each other and this outcome provided a clear justification for studying the effects of co-witness discussion on memory. Previous research on co-witness discussion has reached inconsistent conclusions, and the possibility exists that these discrepancies are due to methodological differences. Therefore, this research aimed to determine whether co-witness discussion helps or hinders individual recall, and to investigate this within a closely defined methodological set. In a series of five experiments, participants were shown a crime video and then asked to discuss the video in groups (some of which received experimentally induced misinformation from a cowitness). Following the discussion, participants were asked to give their individual accounts of what happened. These experiments showed that exposure to postevent information from a co-witness can cause people to incorporate this information into their individual testimonies, regardless of the accuracy of the information. This phenomenon has become known as 'memory conformity'. Relevant theories were tested in order to contribute to knowledge regarding the causes of memory conformity. Furthermore, the experiments also aimed to establish whether it is possible to mediate any negative effects of co-witness discussion by employing our theoretical understanding of the causes of memory conformity. Five approaches were utilized in an attempt to reduce the negative effects of co-witness discussion: warnings about possible misinformation, source monitoring, free recall, confidence ratings, and 'remember/know judgments' (Tulving, 1985). Some evidence was found to suggest that when using 'remember/know judgments' it may be possible to distinguish 'real' memories from information obtained from a co-witness. These results are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications.
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ElRif, Paul. "An examination of matched acquisition and recall modes versus mismatched acquisition and recall modes /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 1999.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 1999.Adviser: Salvatore Soraci. Submitted to the Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-183). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;
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Anderson, Christopher Fredric McGlynn F. Dudley. "Association between fear and visual memory for central and peripheral details." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Fall/Dissertations/ANDERSON_CHRISTOPHER_15.pdf.
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McGregor, Penelope K. (Penelope Kathryn) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "Direct current potential activity of the brain in relation to success and failure to recall dreams." Ottawa, 1992.
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Leonesio, R. Jacob. "Memory and metamemory for personal experience /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9144.
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Rand, Kristina Marie. "Aging and prospective memory." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/rand/RandK0509.pdf.
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MacKenzie, Graham. "Electrophysiological investigations of recognition memory : the role of pre-existing representations in recollection." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/324.
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Dual-process models of recognition memory propose that recognition memory can be supported by either a general sense of familiarity or the recollection of the encoding context. One source of evidence supporting dual-process models comes from event-related potential (ERP) studies of recognition memory, which have identified distinct patterns of neural activity associated with familiarity and recollection (the mid frontal and left parietal old/new effects, respectively). In this thesis, dual-process accounts of recognition memory were investigated in a series of ERP studies using three categories of stimulus: previously unknown faces, famous faces, and names. For previously unknown faces, familiarity was associated with activity over posterior scalp electrodes while recollection was associated with topographically dissociable activity over anterior electrodes. These dissociable patterns of activity support dual-process models. However, the typical pattern of old/new effects was only observed for stimuli associated with pre-existing representations (i.e., names and famous faces), suggesting that the presence/absence of pre-existing representations may determine the particular retrieval processes that support recognition memory. Furthermore, recollection was associated with two different patterns of activity (anterior and left parietal effects), suggesting that recollection is not a homogenous process. Dual-process theories may represent an important starting point for investigating recognition memory, but neither familiarity nor recollection appear to be functionally homogenous processes when theorizing is constrained by the analysis of scalp recorded electrophysiological activity.
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Horry, Ruth. "Placing faces : recollection and familiarity in the own-race bias for face recognition." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2344/.
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The research presented in this thesis examined the roles of recollection and familiarity in the own-race bias (ORB) in recognition memory for faces. In Paper 1, Jacoby's (1991) process-dissociation procedure was used to estimate the relative contributions of recollection and familiarity in recognizing own- and other-race faces. Recollection estimates were higher for own-race faces than for other-race faces, although this effect disappeared when deep or shallow encoding strategies were encouraged. In Paper 2, participants were shown to be less accurate at ignoring previously seen other-race distractors than own-race distractors. Papers 3 and 4 examined how accurately participants were able to remember contextual information about correctly recognized faces. In the encoding phase of an old/new recognition test, each target face was paired with one of several different backgrounds. At testing, old judgments were followed by context judgments, in which the participant attempted to identify with which background the face had been paired. The context judgments were consistently more accurate for correctly recognized own-race faces than for correctly recognized other-race faces. This effect was robust to experimental manipulations such as context reinstatement and divided attention. The overall conclusion from this thesis is that recollection is inferior for other-race faces compared to own-race faces. This recollection deficit means that it is more difficult to retrieve specific information about the circumstances in which other-race faces were encountered. The implications of this recollection deficit for real world behaviour are discussed, with particular reference to eyewitness memory.
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Dias-Mercier, A. E. V. "Acts of creation, acts of recollection : postmemories of wartime in Claudel and Gaudé." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1462912/.
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The relationship between memory and imagination is at the heart of twenty-first century war fiction. This literature engages with the unmaking and remaking of a history that has not been experienced at first hand. The concept of postmemory, developed by Marianne Hirsch with photography as a primary source, examines the role of memory in reconstructing and recollecting history imaginatively and creatively. The act of remembering is transformed into a malleable and innovative activity. This dissertation analyses how the concept of postmemory, when applied to fiction as a form through which to experience unlived memories, approaches experiences of war with a sense of freedom which opens up new narrative perspectives. Focusing on the largely unstudied works of two contemporary French writers, Philippe Claudel and Laurent Gaudé, the first two chapters explore the problematic relation of memory, history and mimetic representation as they unfold in postmemory. Under the shadow of a trauma into which these writers remove themselves temporally, their writings produce a series of distortions that reflect on the fluidity of memory. The third chapter identifies intertextual patterns and generic experiments in the internal movement of each text, and argues that they are an integral part of the dynamic process involved in addressing the past. Underpinned by the ambiguous structure of postmemory, a creative oscillation emerges between continuity and rupture, proximity and distance. The last chapter examines more closely the constitution of the postmemorial subject by focusing on the internal mechanism of belated memory - here, Claudel’s familial postmemory and Gaudé’s prosthetic memory - which articulates memory in terms of responsibility, and creativity in terms of ethics. By embracing a temporal and literary space for remembering events that have not been experienced, the texts examined here call into question the readers’ as well as the author’s ethical positioning. They suggest a new space-time through which to represent the fragmented, problematic recovery involved in postmemory.
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Shapiro, David Steven. "Study of self appraisal and social orientation using questionnaire and early recollection data /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Bloch, David. "Aristotle on memory and recollection : text, translation, interpretation, and reception in Western scholasticism /." Leiden : Brill, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41031433j.
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Texte remanié de: Doctoral dissertation--Faculty of humanities--University of Copenhagen, 2006.Contient une éd. du texte grec de De la mémoire et de la réminiscence avec trad. anglaise en regard. Bibliogr. p. 245-254.
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Epp-Carter, Martha A. "Recollection/re-collection a re-positioning of artificial nature in the natural world /." Connect to this title online, 2009. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1263397404/.
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Illman, Nathan Anthony. "Recognition memory impairments in temporal lobe epilepsy : the contribution of recollection and metacognition." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4156/.
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Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a complex neurological condition associated with a variety of memory problems. This thesis attempted to elucidate the nature and extent of memory impairments further in this clinical group by drawing on dual-process theory of memory (Tulving, 1985; Jacoby, 1991; Yonelinas, 1994). This theory asserts that memory is subserved by two interrelated but independent memory processes. Recollection involves the vivid retrieval of contextual and associative information from memory. Conversely, familiarity involves recognition in the absence of this contextual information. The novel approach taken in this work was to compare paradigms that assess participants’ objective and strategic use of these two processes with measures of people’s subjective experience of their memory. Chapter 2 set the scene by presenting the extent of objective memory impairment in the current patient sample by means of standardised neuropsychological testing. Chapter 3 – 5 assessed subjective and objective recollection in anterograde recognition memory tasks. Chapter 3 showed that patients’ subjective experience of remembering may be driven by qualitatively different types of information to healthy adults. Chapter 4 demonstrated that patients were impaired in their strategic use of recollection and concurrently showed reduced levels of subjective remembering. This demonstrated that patients can be consciously aware of deficits in underlying cognitive processes contributing to memory performance. Chapter 5 specifically examined a metacognitive account of this recollection deficit. Patients were found to have impairments in a number of measures that index relational binding ability. However, their subjective confidence was assigned appropriately; they were lesser confident in their recognition judgments overall and adjusted this confidence in line with the difficulty of materials and task demands comparably to controls. Chapter 6 took a more naturalistic approach and assessed self-reported memory complaint as well as retrograde memory for salient public news events. As expected, people with TLE subjectively complained of dissatisfaction with their day-to-day to memory. The public events task revealed that although patients had reductions in subjective measures associated with recollecting the events, they were just as able as controls to accurately date the news items and monitor their memory for these. Chapter 7 found correlations between a variety of the subjective and objective recollection scores derived in the various tasks. This thesis provides confirmatory evidence that memory impairment in TLE is characterised by disordered recollection and recollective experience. Several important theoretical and clinical applications of these findings are discussed.
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Linkenbach, Jeffrey Warren. "COMMON EARLY RECOLLECTION THEMES OF RECREATION SPECIALISTS (SKI INSTRUCTORS, MEMORY, LIFE STYLE, ADLERIAN PSYCHOLOGY)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/275424.
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Onyper, Serge V. "Dual-process signal detection theory in item recognition: evidence for some-or-none recollection /." Related electronic resource:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407689661&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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FRECHEIRAS, KÁTIA REGINA DE OLIVEIRA. "MENO 86C-87D: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RECOLLECTION AND MATHEMATICS IN PLATO." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=6611@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROA presente dissertação tem por escopo examinar a noção de reminiscência no Mênon de Platão a partir de estudos matemáticos que, no diálogo em questão, constituem um novo paradigma epistemológico para o pensamento platônico. Assim, em primeiro lugar, contextualizamos a teoria da reminiscência evocando a formulação órfico-pitagórica, para, em segundo lugar, traçarmos a importância das matemáticas para a epistemologia platônica especialmente tal como aparece no Mênon, quando Platão se serve do método da hipótese em sua busca para definir a essência da virtude. Ao final, analisamos o texto platônico para compreendermos a teoria da reminiscência em sua elaboração filosófica e em sua incidência na significação científico-matemática do método hipotético. Em suma: o estudo se concentra no Mênon enquanto configura um modo de pensar filosófico de caráter científico alicerçado em critérios mais precisos e objetivos, como o são precisamente as matemáticas.
The aim of the present dissertation is to examine the notion of recollection in Plato`s Meno starting from mathematical studies which, in the dialogue in question, constitute a new epistemological paradigm to the platonic thought. Firstly, we contextualize the theory of recollection evoking the orphicpythagorean formulation. Secondly, we define the importance of mathematics to platonic epistemology, especially as it appears in Meno, when Plato makes use of the hypothesis method in his search to define the essence of virtue. Finally, we analyse the platonic text in order to understand the theory of recollection in its philosophical elaboration and its incidence on the mathematical-scientific signification of the hypothetical method. To sum up: the study concentrates on Meno in as much as it is configurates a way of philosophic thinking of scientific character based on more accurate and objective criteria as precise as mathematics is.
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Peck, Imogen. "Recollection in the Republics : memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/073667e3-acfe-4520-8260-5474ccc670c4.
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This thesis explores the ways the British Civil Wars were remembered in England between the execution of Charles I in January 1649 and the return of the Purged Parliament in December 1659. While over the last decade the mental afterlife of Britain’s major domestic conflicts has become an area of significant scholarly interest, existing studies have focused almost exclusively on the period after 1660. This thesis redresses this imbalance and provides the first detailed study of the memorial culture of England’s republican interval. Uniquely, among studies of this kind, this thesis considers attempts to frame the public memory of the recent past, both by the governments and their opponents, alongside evidence of what diverse ordinary people actually were remembering. It broadens the field of study beyond the traditional focus on printed histories and memoirs, deploying a varied and innovative source base that includes court records, petitions, diaries, civic records, and material culture, as well as a wide range of printed texts. In so doing, it reveals the myriad ways that the events of 1642 to 1651 were remembered, the various purposes that these recollections served, and the diverse communities of memory that operated in 1650s England. These findings contribute to broader theoretical debates about the nature of early modern memory. By emphasising the sheer multiplicity of ways that the bloody recent past was perpetuated in the present, and the complexity of the relationship between public and personal scripts, this thesis presents a more complete and nuanced picture of the memory of catastrophic events in early modernity than has hitherto been articulated. Further, by situating the experience of 1650s England in relation to other post-civil war states, this thesis has been able to identify several similarities between the memorial culture of early modern England and those of post-civil war states in modernity.
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LaMontagne, Pamela Jo. "The Role of the Posterior Parietal Cortex in Subjective and Objective Episodic Memory Recollection." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/213.
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The purpose of this project was to compare the Attention to Memory (AtoM) and the Episodic Buffer (EB) Models. The AtoM model proposes that the ventral parietal cortex (VPC) and dorsal parietal cortex (DPC) are responsive to bottom-up and top- down attention to memory, respectively, (Cabeza, 2008; Cabeza et al., 2008; Ciaramelli et al., 2008). The EB model, on the other hand, proposes that the VPC is involved in the episodic buffer component of Baddeley's working memory model (Vilberg & Rugg, 2008). Using objective (source) and subjective (Remember/Know) retrieval tasks, specific patterns of PPC activity were posited based on the propositions of the AtoM model. These expectations included greater VPC activity for Remember and False Alarms compared to Correct Rejections and Subjective Know, greater DPC activity for Know and Objective Remember compared to Subjective Remember and correct rejections, and no difference in VPC activity for remembering both font and color compared to remembering only one contextual detail. During encoding participants saw words in one of two colors, red or yellow, and in one of two fonts, curvy or straight, and were required to indicate the color the word was presented in. Following each encoding scan participants performed either an Objective or Subjective retrieval task. During Objective retrieval task, participants performed a forced-choice source memory test choosing the word with the correct fontand color or the "new" option. During Subjective retrieval participants were presented with the word in a neutral font and white color and performed a Remember/Know test. On the Subjective retrieval task both VPC and DPC were active for recollection compared to familiar items and Correct Rejections. On the Objective retrieval task the DPC was active for all correct old responses. Neither the VPC nor the DPC were significantly active for False Alarms on both the Subjective and Objective tasks. Both VPC and DPC were more active for Subjective Remember compared to Objective Remember response. Neither PPC region was more active for remembering font and color compared to remembering only font or color. Memory load effects for retrieval of information from long-term memory were only seen in the hippocampus on the Subjective retrieval task. These patterns of activity support the role of the VPC in recollection, as seen on the Subjective task, and the role of the DPC in familiarity, as shown in both the Subjective and Objective tasks. The role of the VPC and DPC during recollection and familiarity processing supports both the AtoM and the EB model. The key predictor of the Episodic Buffer model, memory load effects, was not supported and provides the only evidence against one of the two proposed models. Future work should examine the role of the posterior parietal cortex in spontaneous episodic retrieval to assess the validity of the AtoM model. Advanced imaging analysis techniques should be used to determine functional connectivity between the PPC and frontal and temporal memory regions.
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Danet, Lola. "Recollection et familiarité chez 12 patients présentant un infarctus thalamique gauche : étude comportementale, en imagerie structurale et fonctionnelle de repos." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU30335/document.
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La mémoire de reconnaissance nous permet à la fois de détecter rapidement un stimulus précédemment perçu (familiarité), et de récupérer des informations relatives au contexte de notre rencontre avec ce stimulus (recollection). Les modèles neuro-anatomiques d'Aggleton et Brown (1999) puis d'Aggleton et al. (2011) postulent que le noyau antérieur (NA) du thalamus et le tractus mamillo-thalamique (TMT) du fait de leurs connexions avec l'hippocampe font partie du circuit de la recollection tandis que le noyau dorso-médian (DM) participerait à la familiarité en raison de ses connexions avec le cortex périrhinal. Dans cette thèse nous avons testé cette hypothèse d'indépendance. 12 patients avec un infarctus thalamique gauche ont été recrutés ainsi qu'un groupe de sujets contrôles appariés. Tous les participants ont été soumis à un bilan neuropsychologique, à trois tâches expérimentales de mémoire de reconnaissance et à un examen d'IRM morphologique et d'IRM fonctionnelle de repos. Selon les tâches nous avons estimé la contribution de la recollection et de la familiarité à la réponse sur la base de la verbalisation de la source, du degré de confiance dans la réponse ou de la catégorisation des réponses. Les lésions thalamiques ont été quantifiées et localisées automatiquement grâce à une nouvelle approche méthodologique que nous avons développée. Le profil neuropsychologique des patients a mis en évidence une amnésie antérograde verbale et un trouble exécutif modéré (Etude 1). Les lésions atteignaient principalement le DM alors que le NA était intact chez tous. Le TMT était lésé chez les 7 patients les plus amnésiques (Etudes 1 et 2). La recollection était altérée chez les patients quelle que soit la tâche alors que la familiarité était préservée. De plus l'indice de recollection corrélait avec la lésion du DM (Etude 2). Enfin, des corrélations ont été trouvées dans l'étude en connectivité fonctionnelle entre la disconnexion thalamo-frontale et la recollection (Etude 3). En somme, ces résultats signifient i\ qu'une lésion du NA n'est pas nécessaire pour causer une amnésie ii\ qu'une lésion du DM est suffisante pour causer un défaut de recollection mais pas nécessaire pour atteindre la familiarité iii\ qu'une lésion du TMT prédit une amnésie sévère, enfin iv\ que le réseau reliant fonctionnellement le DM au cortex préfrontal semble être impliqué dans l'expérience subjective de la mémoire de reconnaissance plutôt que dans ses contenus. Ils suggèrent de plus que le modèle d'Aggleton et al (2011) devrait être révisé en ce qui concerne la relation familiarité / DMRecognition memory allows determining whether a stimulus has been previously encountered based on either a rapid detection process (familiarity) or a longer retrieval of the context associated with the stimulus (recollection). Aggleton and Brown's model (1999) and Aggleton and colleagues (2011) postulated that recollection and familiarity are anatomically and functionally independent. They hypothesized that the anterior nucleus (AN) / mamillothalamic tract (MTT) complex of the thalamus would be critical for recollection due to its connections with the hippocampus. The Mediodorsal (MD) nucleus would support familiarity owing to its links with the perirhinal cortex. In this thesis we tested this independence hypothesis. The 12 subjects with a pure left thalamic infarction were included along with a healthy matched control group. Every subject underwent a neuropsychological assessment, three experimental verbal recognition memory tasks, a high-resolution structural volumetric MRI scan and resting state functional imaging. Recollection and familiarity estimations were derived from subjective reports or responses categorization. We specifically developed the methods used to automatically analyse the volume and localization of the lesions. Patients performed worse than controls on verbal memory and to a lesser extent on executive tasks (Study 1). Most of the lesions were located in the MD while no lesion of the AN was found. The seven patients exhibiting MTT damage had the lowest memory performance (Studies 1 and 2). Recollection was lower in patients than in controls in all the three tasks whereas familiarity was systematically normal. In addition we found a significant correlation between the recollection index and the DM damage, suggesting that DM is directly involved in recollection (Article 2). Finally the functional connectivity results showed a correlation between recollection and a pattern of thalamofrontal disconnection in the patients, helping to understand the DM-recollection relationship. Overall, the findings of the different studies mean that i\ AN damage is rare and is not necessary to cause an amnesia, ii\ MD damage is sufficient to cause a recollection impairment but not necessary to impair familiarity, iii\ MTT damage predicts the severity of the amnesia, iv\ the network linking functionally the MD with the prefrontal cortex seems to be involved in the subjective experience associated with recognition memory
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Biggs, Edward Eugene. "Social anxiety and memory deficit for information about others." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26039.
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Cognitive factors have been identified as critical variables in the origin and maintenance of interpersonal dysfunction associated with high social anxiety. Although evidence of a memory deficit accompanying general anxiety states is abundant, studies of memory accompanying social anxiety have failed to demonstrate a deficit. Previous studies of memory deficit in social anxiety have measured only retention of evaluative feedback, the present study investigated memory more typical of interpersonal encounters, the recall of information about others.
Forty-eight high socially anxious males and forty-eight low anxious males were asked to listen to a tape recording of self-disclosures either during an interaction with the self-discloser or in private. Following an interim task, each subject was then asked to recall the information from the tape either in the presence of the female self-discloser or in private. This design allowed for social anxiety provoking manipulation at encoding to be completely crossed with social anxiety manipulation at retrieval. Multiple measures of memory were taken and analyzed with a multivariate procedure.
It was hypothesized that a situational deficit would occur for the high socially anxious subjects when they were encoding the other-referent information in a social context. Additionally, it was hypothesized that high socially anxious subjects would recall more affective as opposed to neutral information, and more negative items than positive or neutral.
The results confirmed that memory is disturbed for high socially anxious subjects when in a social context, and specifically the disturbance occurs at the encoding phase. Results regarding the recall of affective material were contrary to prediction and suggest that high socially anxious subjects selectively process less affective material than do low socially anxious subjects.
The results are supportive of a cognitive perspective arguing that dysfunctional interpersonal experiences may stem from impoverished, incomplete, and barren schema that guide the social behavior. The presence of a recall deficit along with intact recognition memory suggests that information about others is attended to but not processed 'deeply' or elaborately enough to be available on a free recall basis.
The identification of memory deficit as a component of social anxiety provides a variety of new intervention possibilities including social memory enhancement programs, interventions aimed at unearthing poorly encoded memories, and strategies focused on attention to affective messages.Education, Faculty of
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