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Memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life
Autobiographical memory (AM) is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic and semantic memory. It is thus a type of explicit memory. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Autobiographical memoryA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Transdiagnostic distortions in autobiographical memory recollectionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Glass MenagerieThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.Cited 3,184 times
- Go sideways: Reminiscence bumpA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Personal-event memoryA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.
Emotion and autobiographical memory
Autobiographical memory in depression
Sampling autobiographical memory
Organization in autobiographical memory
Origins of autobiographical memory.
Time in Autobiographical Memory
Errors in autobiographical memory
🆕 Influential since 2022
Transdiagnostic distortions in autobiographical memory recollection
Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory
Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming is ubiquitous
Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming affects involuntary autobiographical memory production after a long delay
Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM): A Systematic Review
📚 Books worth reading
The Glass MenagerieTennessee Williams · 1945
The Go-BetweenL. P. Hartley · 1953
WaterlandGraham Swift, Graham Swift · 1983
VertigoW. G. Sebald, Carmen Gómez García · 1990
Mansfield Park [2/2]Jane Austen · 1892
WGeorges Perec · 1975
La Confusion des sentimentsStefan Zweig · 1942
AgnesPeter Stamm · 1998
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