Martin Anthony Conway (18 August 1952 – 30 March 2022) was a British

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focusing on the study of autobiographical memory, as well as the interactions between human memory and the law. He served as head of the psychology department, City, University of London before his passing.

Career

Conway is known for his pioneering research in the study of autobiographical memory, and has amassed over twelve thousand citations as listed on Scopus. Two of his publications that have had the largest impact on the field are "Memory and the Self" (2005) and "The Construction of Autobiographical Memories in the Self-Memory System" (2005). Conway spoke at Monash University Malaysia in 2016. According to Chris Moulin,

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listed Conway's top scientific outputs as: "Ten Things the Law and Others Should Know about Human Memory" (2012), "A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Autobiographical Memory: On the Universality and Cultural Variation of the Reminiscence Bump" (2005), "On the Very Long-Term Retention of Knowledge Acquired Through Formal Education: Twelve Years of Cognitive Psychology" (1991), "Neurophysiological Correlates of Memory for Experienced and Imagined Events" (2003), "The Formation of Flashbulb Memories" (1994), ''Flashbulb Memories'' (1994 & 1995), "The Remembering–Imagining System" (2016), "The Structure of Autobiographical Memory" (multiple), "Organization in Autobiographical Memory" (1987, listed as 1993), "Memory and the Self" (2005), and "The Construction of Autobiographical Memories in the Self-Memory System" (2005).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Conway, Martin A. 1952 births 2022 deaths People from Darlington People from Newcastle upon Tyne British psychoanalysts British psychologists