Autobiographical Memory Development Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Current Issues in Memory Series

Autobiographical memory is constituted from the integration of several memory skills, as well as the ability to narrate. This all helps in understanding our relation to self, family contexts, culture, brain development, and traumatic experiences. The present volume discusses contemporary approaches to childhood memories and examines cutting-edge research on the development of autobiographical memory.

The chapters in this book written by a group of leading authors, each make a unique contribution by describing a specific developmental domain. In providing a multinational and multicultural perspective on autobiographical memory development?and by covering a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, this state-of-the-book is essential reading on the autobiographical memory system for memory researchers and graduate students. It is also of interest to scholars and students working more broadly in the fields of cognitive, developmental, and social psychology, and to academics who are conducting interdisciplinary research on neuroscience, family relationships, narrative methods, culture, and oral history.

Chapter 1: The Emergence of Autobiographical Consciousness and the Construction of an Autobiographical Self by Robyn Fivush

Chapter 2: Socialization of Early Autobiographical Memory by Catherine A. Haden and Pirko Tõugu

Chapter 3: Brain Bases of Autobiographical Memory in Developmentby Patricia J. Bauer

Chapter 4: Is the eye the mirror of the soul? Exploring autobiographical memory development by means of looking-time measures by Peter Krøjgaard, Trine Sonne and Osman S. Kingo

Chapter 5: Narrative Methods in Autobiographical Memory by Azriel Grysman and Cade D. Mansfield

Chapter 6: Developing a view of AMs and self-construal as socially, culturally and historically constructed: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach by Manuel L. De la Mata-Benitez, Andres Santamaria, Mercedes Cubero, Radka Antalikova, Tia Gitte Bondesen Hansen and Samuel Arias

Chapter 7: Content and Consistency of Earliest Memories by Berivan Ece & Sami Gülgöz

Chapter 8: Autobiographical Memory Development and Self-Construals Within and Across Cultures by Basak Sahin-Acar and Michelle D. Leichtman

Chapter 9: Remembering Earliest Childhood Memories by Carole Peterson

Chapter 10: How did you feel back then? Emotional Memory Conversations among Mother-Father-Child Triads by Elif Burumlu-Kisa and Basak Sahin-Acar

Chapter 11: Adults’ Memories of Childhood: The Beginning of the Life Story by Majse Lind, Susan Bluck and Hanna Åkerlund

Chapter 12: The Development of Children’s Autobiographical Memory for Learning Episodes by Michelle D. Leichtman, Rhyannon H. Bemis, Kaitlin A. Camilleri and David B. Pillemer

Chapter 13: PTSD in Youth from a Developmental Perspective by Inge Lise Lundsgaard Kongshøj and Annette Bohn

Chapter 14: Final Discussion and Looking Forward by Basak Sahin-Acar & Sami Gülgöz

Sami Gülgöz is Professor of Psychology at Koç University in Istanbul. His current research focuses on memory in applied contexts and particularly on autobiographical memory in relation to social and individual characteristics.

Basak Sahin-Acar is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Middle East Technical University. She is also affiliated with the interdisciplinary program of Gender and Women's Studies. Her research interests include autobiographical memory development within and across cultures, as well as the effects of self-construals and familial context on this development.