Are autobiographical memories inherently social? Evidence from an fMRI study.

The story of our lifetime - our narrative self - is constructed from our autobiographical memories. A central claim of social psychology is that this narrative self is inherently social: When we construct our lives, we do so in a real or imagined interaction. This predicts that self-referential proc...

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Main Authors: Linda Wilbers, Lorena Deuker, Juergen Fell, Nikolai Axmacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3448611?pdf=render