Life-narrative and word-cued autobiographical memories in centenarians: comparisons with 80-year-old control, depressed, and dementia groups.

Fromholt, Pia

Mortensen, Dorthe B

Torpdahl, Per

Bender, Lise

Larsen, Per

Rubin, David C

England

2015-05-20T02:43:03Z

2003-01

Centenarians provided autobiographical memories to either a request for a life narrative or a request to produce autobiographical memories to cue words. Both methods produced distributions with childhood-amnesia, reminiscence-bump, and recency components. The life-narrative method produced relatively more bump memories at the expense of recent memories. The life-narrative distributions were similar to those obtained from 80-year-old adults without clinical symptoms and from 80-year-old Alzheimer's dementia and depression patients, except that the centenarians had an additional 20-year period of relatively low recall between the bump and recency components. The centenarians produced more emotionally neutral memories than the other three groups and produced fewer and less detailed memories than the non-clinical 80-year-old sample.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12653490

0965-8211

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10121

eng

Informa UK Limited

Memory

10.1080/741938171

Age Factors

Aged

Aged, 80 and over

Alzheimer Disease

Autobiography as Topic

Cues

Depression

Female

Humans

Life Change Events

Male

Mental Recall

Life-narrative and word-cued autobiographical memories in centenarians: comparisons with 80-year-old control, depressed, and dementia groups.

Journal article

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12653490

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Duke

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Psychology and Neuroscience

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

University Institutes and Centers

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