title: Going global: the functions of autobiographical memory in cultural context.
abstract: This special issue of Memory brings together research from around the globe, from Japanese, Chinese and East Indian cultures, to American and European societies, to the Caribbean, to Turkey and to Australia and New Zealand, which examines how and why people, from childhood to old age, remember the personal past in daily life. This journey highlights the important role of the cultural context in shaping the functional usages of autobiographical memory. We illuminate six major contributions of cross-cultural research to a broader and deeper understanding of the functions of autobiographical memory, and call attention to the filed that memory research must "go global."
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Behavioural Sciences , University of the West Indies , St. Augustine , Trinidad and Tobago.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Alea
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D061212:Memory, Episodic
keywords: Autobiographical memory; Culture; Functions