Recent Advances in Understanding the Reminiscence Bump: The Importance of Cues in Guiding Recall from Autobiographical Memory.

Koppel, J

Rubin, DC

United States

2016-05-15T16:07:06Z

2016-04-01

The reminiscence bump is the increased proportion of autobiographical memories from youth and early adulthood observed in adults over 40. It is one of the most robust findings in autobiographical memory research. Although described as a single period of increased memories, a recent meta-analysis which reported the beginning and ending ages of the bump from individual studies found that different classes of cues produce distinct bumps that vary in size and temporal location. The bump obtained in response to cue words is both smaller and located earlier in the lifespan than the bump obtained when important memories are requested. The bump obtained in response to odor cues is even earlier. This variation in the size and location of the reminiscence bump argues for theories based primarily on retrieval rather than encoding and retention, which most current theories stress. Furthermore, it points to the need to develop theories of autobiographical memory that account for this flexibility in the memories retrieved.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27141156

0963-7214

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12028

eng

Association for Psychological Science

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

10.1177/0963721416631955

autobiographical memory

cuing

important memories

olfaction

reminiscence bump

word-cued memories

Recent Advances in Understanding the Reminiscence Bump: The Importance of Cues in Guiding Recall from Autobiographical Memory.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27141156

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Duke

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

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Psychology and Neuroscience

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

University Institutes and Centers

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