Introduction to the special section on integrative approaches to source memory.
Source memory involves recognizing or recalling particular features that cause us to think of a mental experience as representing a particular past event. Research directed at understanding source memory comes from many domains, including cognitive-behavioral psychology, neuroscience, lifespan psychology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry. The authors believe that integrating multiple approaches to investigating source memory--most notably here, cognitive-behavioral and cognitive neuroscience--provides productive cross-fertilization of theory, methods, and analyses that in turn will yield unique constraints to our understanding of human memory. The investigations in this special section demonstrate the promise of such an integrative approach for advancing theories of source memory.
Johnson
Marcia K
MK
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-205, USA. marcia.johnson@yale.edu
Verfaellie
Mieke
M
Dunlosky
John
J
D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology