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Transactive Memory Reconstructed: Rethinking Wegner's Research Program
Author(s) -
Huebner Bryce
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/sjp.12160
Subject(s) - transactive memory , construct (python library) , episodic memory , psychology , cognitive science , collective memory , cognitive psychology , computer science , cognition , neuroscience , political science , law , programming language
In this paper, I argue that recent research on episodic memory supports a limited defense of the phenomena that Daniel Wegner has termed transactive memory. Building on psychological and neurological research, targeting both individual and shared memory, I argue that individuals can collaboratively work to construct shared episodic memories. In some cases, this yields memories that are distributed across multiple individuals instead of being housed in individual brains.