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Part V - Temporal distributions of autobiographical memories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2011

David C. Rubin
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Duke University, North Carolina
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Crovitz and Schiffman began their 1974 seminal paper, “Frequency of episodic memories as a function of their age,” by stating, “It would be desirable to expose by listing the full storage of episodic memory. Such a list should include the age of each memory as referred to the present” (Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 4, 517). The two chapters in Part V analyze data in which subjects recorded the first memories that came to mind for such a list. Although there was little control of what the subjects chose to recall, subjects of similar ages responded in remarkably similar ways. Their recollections quantitatively demonstrate two phenomena of autobiographical memory that have been discussed qualitatively for some time both experimentally and anecdotally: childhood amnesia and reminiscence. In these chapters, the general existence and form of the phenomena are confirmed, but the quantitative descriptions of the phenomena challenge existing theories.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1986

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