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The distribution of autobiographical memories across the lifespan.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Rubin, DC; Schulkind, MD
November 1997

Words were used to cue autobiographical memories from 20- and 70-year-old subjects. Both groups showed a decrease in memories from the childhood years and a power-function retention function for their most recent 10 years. Older subjects also had an increase in the number of memories from the ages 10 to 30. These results held for individual subjects as well as grouped data and held when either 124 or 921 memories were cued. Reaction times to produce memories were constant across decades except for childhood where they were longer.

Duke Scholars

Publication Date

November 1997

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Related Subject Headings

  • Mental Recall
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Autobiographies as Topic
  • Aged
  • Age Factors
  • Adult
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
 

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Rubin, D. C., and M. D. Schulkind. “The distribution of autobiographical memories across the lifespan.,” November 1997.
Rubin, D. C., and M. D. Schulkind. The distribution of autobiographical memories across the lifespan. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Nov. 1997.
Rubin DC, Schulkind MD. The distribution of autobiographical memories across the lifespan. Springer Science and Business Media LLC; 1997 Nov;

Publication Date

November 1997

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Related Subject Headings

  • Mental Recall
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Autobiographies as Topic
  • Aged
  • Age Factors
  • Adult
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology