The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.
@article{Conway2000TheCO,
title={The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.},
author={Martin A. Conway and Christopher W. Pleydell-Pearce},
journal={Psychological review},
year={2000},
volume={107 2},
pages={
261-88
}
}The authors describe a model of autobiographical memory in which memories are transitory mental constructions within a self-memory system (SMS). The SMS contains an autobiographical knowledge base and current goals of the working self. Within the SMS, control processes modulate access to the knowledge base by successively shaping cues used to activate autobiographical memory knowledge structures and, in this way, form specific memories. The relation of the knowledge base to active goals is…
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