Martin Anthony Conway[a] (18 August 1952 – 30 March 2022) was a British psychologist and psychoanalyst focusing on the study of autobiographical memory,[3][4] as well as the interactions between human memory and the law.
[5] He served as head of the psychology department, City, University of London before his passing.
Conway is known for his pioneering research in the study of autobiographical memory,[6][7] and has amassed over twelve thousand citations as listed on Scopus.
[10] Conway spoke at Monash University Malaysia in 2016.
[11] According to Chris Moulin, Daniel Schacter listed Conway's top scientific outputs as:[12] "Ten Things the Law and Others Should Know about Human Memory"[5] (2012), "A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Autobiographical Memory: On the Universality and Cultural Variation of the Reminiscence Bump"[13] (2005), "On the Very Long-Term Retention of Knowledge Acquired Through Formal Education: Twelve Years of Cognitive Psychology"[14] (1991), "Neurophysiological Correlates of Memory for Experienced and Imagined Events"[15] (2003), "The Formation of Flashbulb Memories"[16] (1994), Flashbulb Memories[17][18] (1994 & 1995), "The Remembering–Imagining System"[19] (2016), "The Structure of Autobiographical Memory"[20] (multiple), "Organization in Autobiographical Memory"[21] (1987, listed as 1993), "Memory and the Self"[8] (2005), and "The Construction of Autobiographical Memories in the Self-Memory System"[9] (2005).