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tunnel memory: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

tendency to remember a traumatic scene with its central part enlarged and its periphery cut off, the opposite of boundary extension.

In cognitive psychology, tunnel memory refers to tendency to remember a traumatic scene with its central part enlarged and its periphery cut off, the opposite of boundary extension. This meaning comes from Safer (1998) in Applied Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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References

Safer, M. A., Christianson, S., Autry, M. W., & Österlund, K. (1998). Tunnel memory for traumatic events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 12(2), 99-117. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199804)12:2<99::aid-acp509>3.0.co;2-7

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