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Autobiographical memory (AM) [1] is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) [2] and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory. [3]
Scientists now need to ascertain if and how these brain areas are connected to establish a coherent neurological model for superior autobiographical memory. For autobiographical memory, the hippocampus, located in the medial temporal lobe, is involved in the encoding of declarative memory (memory for facts and events), while the temporal cortex ...
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.
Participants in the study took the autobiographical memory test and were asked about past sexual and physical abuse. This was the first study that showed a correlation between childhood trauma, specifically sexual abuse, and OGM. [11] A similar study in 2003 corroborated these findings.
It was identified through the study of autobiographical memory and the subsequent plotting of the age of encoding of memories to form the lifespan retrieval curve. The lifespan retrieval curve is a graph that represents the number of autobiographical memories encoded at various ages during the life span.
However, one study also shows that recurrent involuntary memories post-trauma can be explained with the general mechanisms of autobiographical memory, and tend to not come up in a fixed, unchangeable form. [7] This suggests that psychologists may be able to develop ways to help individuals deal with traumatic involuntary memories.
Jill Price (née Rosenberg, born December 30, 1965) is an American author from Southern California, [1] who has been diagnosed with hyperthymesia.She was the first person to receive such a diagnosis, and it was her case that inspired research into hyperthymesia.
In a related study on "Children's Memory for Trauma and Positive Experiences" in 2003, similar trend was observed. In this study the nature of memory for trauma vs. standard autobiographical events was tested. Thirty children between age 8 and 16, who were being treated for traumatic experiences were asked to identify one positive event, that ...