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Autobiographical memory—memory for our personal past—is a multifaceted mnemonic activity that evolves throughout the lifespan and interacts with numerous other cognitive functions. Retrieving personal past events engages processes of cue specification, search, and elaboration of details within the specified event.
Carina L. Fan +3 more
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The me in memory:the role of the self in autobiographical memory development [PDF]
This paper tests the hypothesis that self development plays a role in the offset of childhood amnesia; assessing the importance of both the capacity to anchor a memory to the self-concept, and the strength of the self-concept as an anchor. We demonstrate
Harter S. +4 more
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The Development of Autobiographical Memory, Autobiographical Narratives, and Autobiographical Consciousness [PDF]
In this article, we expand on aspects of autobiographical memory initially laid out in our earlier exposition of the sociocultural developmental model. We present a developmental account of the integration of an extended subjective perspective within an extended narrative framework both of which are mediated through language and shared cultural ...
Katherine Nelson, Robyn Fivush
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Visual object imagery and autobiographical memory: object imagers are better at remembering their personal past [PDF]
In the present study we examined whether higher levels of object imagery, a stable characteristic that reflects the ability and preference in generating pictorial mental images of objects, facilitate involuntary and voluntary retrieval of ...
Chiorri, Carlo +3 more
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Individual Differences in Autobiographical Memory
Although humans have a remarkable capacity to recall a wealth of detail from the past, there are marked inter-individual differences in the quantity and quality of our mnemonic experiences. Such differences in autobiographical memory may appear self-evident, yet there has been little research on this topic.
Levine , Brian +2 more
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Autobiographical memory forms a network of memories about personal experiences that defines and supports well-being and effective functioning of the self in various ways.
Elien Vanderveren +2 more
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Ordering our world: The quest for traces of temporal organization in autobiographical memory [PDF]
An experiment examined the idea, derived from the Self Memory System model (Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000), that autobiographical events are sometimes tagged in memory with labels reflecting the life era in which an event occurred.
John J. Skowronski +6 more
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Involuntary autobiographical memories are mental representations of personally experienced past events that come to mind spontaneously, with no preceding attempt to recall them.
Mélissa C. Allé +3 more
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Involuntary autobiographical memories are memories of personal events that come to mind without an intentional attempt at retrieval. Previous studies have shown that positive involuntary autobiographical memory retrieval improves negative mood, known as ...
Junya Hashimoto +3 more
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Organization in autobiographical memory [PDF]
Three experiments investigated timed autobiographical memory retrieval to cue words and phrases. In the first experiment, subjects retrieved memories to cues that named semantic category members and were primed with the superordinate category name or with a neutral word. No prime effects were observed.
D. A. Bekerian, Martin A. Conway
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