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Item Open Access Bilingual Autobiographical Memory in Older Adult Immigrants: A Test of Cognitive Explanations of the Reminiscence Bump and the Linguistic Encoding of Memories(Journal of Memory and Language, 1998-10-01) Schrauf, RW; Rubin, DCTwelve people who emigrated as adults from Spanish-speaking cultures and then spent at least 30 years in an Anglo culture were asked to provide autobiographical memories to word cues. All communication was in Spanish on one day and English on a second. In previous studies, there has been a bump or increase in autobiographical memories for the 10 to 30 decades. Here the increase in memories followed the age of immigration and settlement, supporting a cognitive theory of the reminiscence bump. The distributions of memories across the lifespan were similar for the Spanish sessions and the English sessions. Participants identified 20% of their memories as recalled internally in the language not being used that day. For this subset of memories, events prior to migration were more frequently recalled in Spanish, whereas events after migration were more frequently recalled in English. © 1998 Academic Press.Item Open Access Effects of Voluntary Immigration on the Distribution of Autobiographical Memory over the Lifespan(Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2001-12-01) Schrauf, RW; Rubin, DCImmigration may be considered a 'traumatic' event with acute phases followed by long latency effects. Ten older, Hispanic adults who immigrated to the USA at ages 20-22, 24-28, and 34-35 narrated their 'life-stories' on two occasions, once in English and once in Spanish. Instead of the usual reminiscence bump they showed an increase in autobiographical recalls corresponding specifically to their ages at immigration. Each of the narrated life stories was independently coded for amount of detail, emotional valence, status as transitional event, and backward/forward search strategy. Memories for the time of immigration did not differ from other memories on any of these ratings. Increased recall for the period of immigration may be due to the encoding of novel events and the 'effort after meaning' required to integrate these events followed by a relatively stable period (settlement) marked by release from proactive interference and spaced rehearsal. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Item Open Access Identification of Internal Languages of Retrieval: The Bilingual Encoding of Memories for the Personal Past(Memory & Cognition, 2000) Schrauf, RW; Rubin, DCItem Open Access On the bilingual's two sets of memories(2003-02-28) Schrauf, RW; Rubin, DCItem Open Access The ‘language’ and ‘feel’ of bilingual memory: Mnemonic traces(Estudios de Sociolingüística, 2004) Schrauf, RW; Rubin, DC