Main description:

1. Explores the memory phenomena that confound and challenge standard theories of memory processing, including the deja vu phenomenon, tip-of-the-tongue states, unconscious plagiarism, and insight and creativity in memory. 2. Places memory quirks within the broader context of human memory, providing an alternative to traditional texts on human memory. 3. Features contributions from the leading researchers in the field.

Contents:

Preface

Quirks of Autobiographical Memory

Chapter 1: Autobiographical editing: Revising our Personal Past

Alan S. Brown, Lindy M. Fields, Katie Croft Cadero, Mike Chmielewski,

Deanna Denman & Elizabeth J. Marsh

Chapter 2: Quirks in Autobiographical Memory

Bogdan Kostic & Ari L. Cunningham

Chapter 3: Broadening the Autobiographical Record to Include Memories of Fiction

Elizabeth J. Marsh & Brenda W. Yang

Chapter 4: Eating the Memories

W. Robert Batsell, Jr.

Chapter 5: Blocked and Recovered Memories

Steven M. Smith & Zsolt Beda

Quirks of Our Knowledge and Awareness of Our Own Memories

Chapter 6: When More is Less: Cue Depreciation in Memory

Zehra F. Peynircioglu

Chapter 7: The Charming Quirks of Implicit Memory

David B. Mitchell

Chapter 8: Negative Effects of Repetition and Testing

Neil W. Mulligan

Chapter 9: When and Why We (Sometimes) Forget Really Important Things

Alan D. Castel & Matthew G. Rhodes

Chapter 10: Fluency Illusions in Metamemory

Monika Undorf

Chapter 11: Knowing More or Thinking that You Know More? Context-dependent Illusions of Knowing

Katarzyna Zawadzka & Maciej Hanczakowski

Quirky Sensations of Memory

Chapter 12: Memory Under the SEA (Subjective Experience of Agency)

Zachary J. Bucknoff & Janet Metcalfe

Chapter 13: Tip-of-the-tongue States: Past and Future

Bennett L. Schwartz & Ali Pournaghadi

Chapter 14: The Butcher on the Bus Experience

Alan S. Brown

Chapter 15: Partial Retrieval is a Distinct yet Infrequent Phenomenon in Human Memory

Khrista K. Doshier & Anthony J. Ryals

Chapter 16: The Deja vu Phenomenon's Entry into the Realm of Science

Anne M. Cleary, Andrew M. Huebert, & Katherine L. McNeely-White

Chapter 17: Converging on an Understanding of the Deja vu Experience

Courtney B.A. Aitken & Akira R. O'Connor

Chapter 18: Repetition, or Deja vu and Embodied Consciousness

Joseph Neisser

Epilogue