Joint Reminiscing as Joint Attention to the Past
The activity of joint reminiscing can be seen as involving a particular form of joint attention: joint attention to the past. This chapter examines the developmental role episodes of joint reminiscing might play, specifically claims in developmental psychology that participation in joint reminiscing plays a key role in memory development. It identifies a particular type of causal reasoning ability that it is believed is required for the possession of episodic memories, as it is needed to give substance to the distinction between the past and the present. It also argues that the same causal reasoning ability is required for grasping the point that another person's appeal to particular past events can have in joint reminiscing. This provides for one way of thinking of the role that episodes of joint reminiscing might play in memory development.
Keywords: joint reminiscing, memory development, causal understanding, episodic memory
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .