Constructing the past
- Episodic memories can no longer be seen as the re-activation of stored experiences but are the product of an intense construction process based on a memory trace. Episodic recall is a result of a process of scenario construction. If one accepts this generative framework of episodic memory, there is still a be big gap in understanding the role of the narrative self in shaping scenario construction. Some philosophers are in principle sceptic by claiming that a narrative self cannot be more than a causally inefficacious attributed entity anyway. Thus, we first characterize a narrative self in detail and second we clarify its influential causal role in shaping our episodic memories by influencing the process of scenario construction. This happens at three stages, namely at the level of the input, the output and the process of scenario construction.
| Author: | Roy DingsORCiDGND, Albert NewenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-100575 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00581-2 |
| Parent Title (English): | The review of philosophy and psychology |
| Subtitle (English): | the relevance of the narrative self in modulating episodic memory |
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/08/15 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/08/13 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | Episodic memory; Narrative self; Scenario construction; Self-memory systems |
| Volume: | 14 |
| First Page: | 87 |
| Last Page: | 112 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist auf Grund des DEAL-Springer-Vertrages frei zugänglich. |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Institut für Philosophie II |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Philosophie und Psychologie / Philosophie |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Philosophie und Erziehungswissenschaft |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
