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What do memories correspond to?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Martin A. Conway
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TN, England. m.a.conway@bristol.ac.uk

Abstract

Neither the storehouse nor the correspondence metaphor is an appropriate conceptual framework for memory research. Instead a meaning-based account of human memory is required. The correspondence metaphor is an advance over previous suggestions but entails an oversimple view of “accuracy.” Freud's account of memory may provide a more fruitful approach to memory and meaning.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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