Point of view in personal memories

1983/10/01 by Georgia Nigro, Ulric Neisser · 827 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Artificial intelligence #Autobiographical memory #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Critical Race Theory in Education #Emotionality #Event (particle physics) #Feeling #Field (mathematics) #Mathematics #Observer (physics) #Perspective (graphical) #Psychology #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research #Recall #Set (abstract data type) #Similarity (geometry) #Social psychology #Tensor decomposition and applications

paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(83)90016-6

published in Cognitive Psychology 15(4), 467-482 (Elsevier BV)

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