Concept information
Preferred term
autobiographical memory
Definition
- Declarative memory concerning the personal past of the individual, encompassing episodic memories of experienced and contextualized events as well as general, decontextualized semantic knowledge about the self.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- autobiographical knowledge base
- conceptual self
- episodic autobiographical memory
- flashbulb memory
- highly superior autobiographical memory
- historically defined autobiographical period
- hotspot
- life script
- nonbelieved memory
- overgeneral memory
- self-defining future projection
- self-defining memory
- working self
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
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Berntsen, D., & Rubin, D. C. (Eds.). (2012). Understanding Autobiographical Memory: Theories and Approaches. Cambridge University Press.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • 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
• Document type: meta-analysis
• Access: closed
- • 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
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Kopelman, M. D. (2019). Anomalies of autobiographical memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 25(10), 1061–1075. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135561771900081X
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Mace, J. (2019). The organization and structure of autobiographical memory. Oxford University Press.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Piolino, P., Desgranges, B., Eustache, F. (2000). La mémoire autobiographique : théorie et pratique. Solal
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• Access: closed
- • 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
• Document type: meta-analysis
• Access: closed
- • 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
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • 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
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • 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
• Document 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
- IAM task
- 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©
- 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
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