Saturday, March 22, 2008

Augmented Memory

There are things in this life worse than dying...
But there is nothing better than living....

Autobiographical memory (AM) is the “memory for the events in one’s life”. Often it is assumed that in order to remember all those events, you just need to record everything and when you replay these recordings you will remember those events. You can compare this with a library metaphor that has been used to explain AM according to the record-keeping approach. However, after many years of AM-research it was concluded that AM is stored in a different manner, which often is initiated by memory cues.

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