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The purpose of this chapter is to examine the role of phenomenal experience in traditional laboratory memory tasks and in studies of autobiographical memory. My motivation for taking on this difficult topic is that I think that researchers in the area of autobiographical memory have always been a bit embarrassed by the “subjective,” “phenomenal,” and “imageable,” aspects of autobiographical memory; but, when one examines the standard laboratory memory tasks, one fmds that all of the same phenomena are occurring in these tasks and therefore there is no reason for students of autobiographical memory to be defensive about their domain. The important message of this position is that investigators across the whole range of memory research have to face the problems related to phenomenal experience during memory tasks.
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Brewer, W.F. (1992). Phenomenal Experience in Laboratory and Autobiographical Memory Tasks. In: Conway, M.A., Rubin, D.C., Spinnler, H., Wagenaar, W.A. (eds) Theoretical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory. NATO ASI Series, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7967-4_3
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