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Ten years later: Two hospitalists recall 9/11/01
Author(s) -
Harte Brian J.,
Pile James C.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of hospital medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.128
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1553-5606
pISSN - 1553-5592
DOI - 10.1002/jhm.967
Subject(s) - medicine , recall , content (measure theory) , hospital medicine , information retrieval , medline , family medicine , cognitive psychology , computer science , psychology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , political science , law
Flashbulb Memories are memories for the circumstances in which one first learned of a very surprising and consequential (or emotionally arousing) event. Hearing the news that President John Kennedy had been shot is the prototype case. Almost everyone can remember, with an almost perceptual clarity, where he was when he heard, what he was doing at the time, who told him, what was the immediate aftermath, how he felt about it, and also one or more totally idiosyncratic and often trivial concomitants.