Memory and Self : Memory and Self : Theoretical Theoretical Approaches and Implications

Memory and Self : Memory and Self : Theoretical Theoretical
Approaches and Implications Approaches and Implications
for for Cancer PatientsCancer Patients
FrancisEustacheandBénédicteGiffard
Inserm‐EPHE‐UniversitédeCaenBasseNormandie,
UnitédeRechercheU1077,Caen,France

Memory and Self : Theoretical Memory and Self : Theoretical
Approaches and Implications for Approaches and Implications for
Cancer PatientsCancer Patients
•What is Memory?What is Self?Andwhat arethe
linksbetween both?
•ThecentralconceptofAutobiographical Memory
(AM)– Examples with Amnesic syndromesand
Alzheimer’s Disease
•AMfunctioning inDepression andPTSD
•Implicationsandfirstresults inCancerpatients

PatientH.M.
(Scoville &Milner,Corkin)
PatientK.C.
(Tulving)
Sergeï Korsakoff

What is Memory?
Tulving’s SPImodel(1995)
To dial a number
Perceptive primingPerceptive priming
Rome is the capital of Italy
« I know »
I spentmy holidays in Italy
last summer
« I remember »
To go cycling

Autonoetic
Noetic
Anoetic
Tulving (1985)
MEMORYSYSTEM CONSCIOUSNESS