Proust's Contribution to The Psychology of Memory : The Reminiscences from The Standpoint of Cognitive Science  

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Delacour, Jean

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Psychology vol. 11 no. 2 (Apr. 2001), page 255–271.
Topik: PSYCHOLOGY; autobiographical memory; cued retrieval; explicit memory; involuntary memory; proust; reminiscences; space memory; standpoint; cognitive science
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The work of Proust is generally considered to be a major contribution to the psychology of memory. However, there has been no recent evaluation of this contribution from the standpoint of the cognitive sciences. In this article, I examined the scientific status of the reminiscences, this form of retrieval being illustrated by the famous episode of the petite madeleine. It appears that the reminiscences have a place in the taxonomy of the normal memory: they are a form of cued retrieval of explicit memory, characterized by an episodic content where the spatial component of the context is particularly important. Current interpretations in terms of affective or unconscious memory do not seem to be well grounded. The description of the reminiscences cannot be taken at face value for it is subordinate to a philosophy of art which is the main purpose of A la recherche du temps perdu.

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