Concept information
Preferred term
autobiographical memory
Definition
- Memory of events whose reference is the subject him or herself. According to recent models, autobiographical memory has both episodic (memories of specific events) and semantic (personal semantics, i.e., general information about the subject's past) aspects.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Beike, D. R., Merrick, C. R., & Cole, H. E. (2020). Use, adaptivity, and need fulfillment: A methodological critique of tests of the functions of autobiographical memory. Psychological Reports, 123(1), 43–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294119852578
[Study type: literature review / Access: open]
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• Berntsen, D., & Rubin, D. C. (Eds.). (2012). Understanding Autobiographical Memory: Theories and Approaches. Cambridge University Press.
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
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• Boccia, M., Teghil, A., & Guariglia, C. (2019). Looking into recent and remote past: Meta-analytic evidence for cortical re-organization of episodic autobiographical memories. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 107, 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.09.003
[Study type: meta-analysis / Access: closed]
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• Heux, L., Rathbone, C., Gensburger, S., Clifford, R., & Souchay, C. (2023). Collective memory and autobiographical memory: Perspectives from the humanities and cognitive sciences, 14(3), e1635. WIREs Cognitive Science, e1635. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1635
[Study type: literature review / Access: open]
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• Kopelman, M. D. (2019). Anomalies of autobiographical memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 25(10), 1061–1075. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135561771900081X
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
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• Mace, J. (2019). The organization and structure of autobiographical memory. Oxford University Press.
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
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• Piolino, P., Desgranges, B., Eustache, F. (2000). La mémoire autobiographique : théorie et pratique. Solal
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
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• Shepardson, S., Dahlgren, K., & Hamann, S. (2023). Neural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval: An SDM neuroimaging meta-analysis. Cortex, 166, 59–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.05.006
[Study type: meta-analysis / Access: closed]
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• Sow, F., Dijkstra, K., & Janssen, S. M. J. (2023). Developments in the functions of autobiographical memory: An advanced review. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(3), e1625. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1625
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
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• Talarico, J. M. (2023). A tetrahedral model of autobiographical memory research design. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(3), e1615. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1615
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• Testa, G., Sotgiu, I., Rusconi, M. L., Cauda, F., & Costa, T. (2024). The functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory for happy events: A coordinate-based meta-analysis. Healthcare, 12(7), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12070711
[Study type: meta-analysis / Access: open]
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Has model(s)
Has study method(s)
- Adapted Autobiographical Interview
- autobiographical fluency task
- Autobiographical Implicit Association Test
- Autobiographical Interview
- Autobiographical Memory Interview
- Autobiographical Memory Test
- Autobiographical Recollection Test
- autobiographical think/no-think task
- Autographical Memory Characteristics Questionnaire
- Centrality of Event Scale
- cognitive interview
- Cognitive Interview for Suspects
- cue-word method
- diary method
- double-cue method
- event-cueing paradigm
- important memories method
- Involuntary Memories Program
- involuntary memory diary method
- Memory Characteristics Questionnaire
- Memory Experiences Questionnaire
- NICHD protocol
- Reminiscence Functions Scale
- rumor mongering paradigm
- Self-Administered Interview©
- semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming effect
- Sentence Completion for Events from the Past Test
- Survey of Autobiographical Memory
- Test of Episodic Memory for the Autobiographical Past
- Thinking About Life Experiences Questionnaire
- trauma film paradigm
Has theory(ies)
Impaired in
- Alzheimer's disease
- amnesia
- anterograde amnesia
- autoreferential contamination
- confabulation
- habit confabulation
- hypermnesia (pathology)
- memory confusion
- memory fabrication
- mild cognitive impairment
- misplacement confabulation
- recollective confabulation
- retrograde amnesia
- semantically anomalous confabulation
- severely deficient autobiographical memory
- transposition in the past
In other languages
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French
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souvenir autobiographique
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-D720VZZ8-3
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