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Trade-offs between the accuracy and integrity of autobiographical narrative in memory reconsolidation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Carlos Montemayor*
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco, CA 94132. cmontema@sfsu.eduhttps://sites.google.com/site/carlosmontemayorphilosophysfsu/home

Abstract

Lane et al. propose an integrative model for the reconsolidation of traces in their timely and impressive article. This commentary draws attention to trade-offs between accuracy and self-narrative integrity in the model. The trade-offs concern the sense of agency in memory and its role in both implicit and explicit memory reconsolidation, rather than balances concerning degrees of emotional arousal.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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