On the retention function for autobiographical memory

Episodic and semantic memory

(2007) · Cognitive Psychology · doi:10.4135/9781446212967.n15 · Cited by 3,749

Concreteness, imagery, and meaningfulness values for 925 nouns.

Paivio, A., Yuille, J. C., & Madigan, S. A. (1968) · Journal of Experimental Psychology · doi:10.1037/h0025327 · Cited by 2,855

The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history.

Greenwald, A. G. (1980) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/0003-066x.35.7.603 · Cited by 1,942

Explorations in Cognition

Loftus, E. F., Norman, D. A., & Rumelhart, D. E. (1975) · The American Journal of Psychology · doi:10.2307/1421908 · Cited by 1,292

Experimental Psychology

Boring, E. G., & Woodworth, R. S. (1939) · The American Journal of Psychology · doi:10.2307/1416676 · Cited by 1,242

Human Information Processing: An Introduction to Psychology

Lindsay, P. H., & Norman, D. A. (1972) · Cited by 979

Frequency of episodic memories as a function of their age

Crovitz, H. F., & Schiffman, H. (1974) · Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society · doi:10.3758/bf03334277 · Cited by 674

PSYCHOMETRIC EXPERIMENTS

GALTON, F. (1879) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/2.2.149 · Cited by 411

Temporal Gradients in the Retrograde Amnesia of Patients With Alcoholic Korsakoff's Disease

Albert, M., Butters, N., & Levin, J. R. (1979) · Archives of Neurology · doi:10.1001/archneur.1979.00500400065010 · Cited by 333

The free recall of category examples.

Gruenewald, P. J., & Lockhead, G. R. (1980) · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Learning & Memory · doi:10.1037/0278-7393.6.3.225 · Cited by 300

Turning Water into Wine

Giraldo, C. O., & Harris, P. L. (2019) · Journal of Cognition and Culture · doi:10.1163/15685373-12340056 · Cited by 10

Characteristics of interval‐based estimates of autobiographical frequencies

Blair, E., & Ganesh, G. K. (1991) · Applied Cognitive Psychology · doi:10.1002/acp.2350050306 · Cited by 10

Autobiographical Memory in Normal Ageing and Dementia

SAGAR, H. J., Sullivan, E. V., & Corkin, S. (1991) · Behavioural Neurology · doi:10.1155/1991/972419 · Cited by 10

The formation of episodic autobiographical memory is predicted by mental imagery, self-reference, and anticipated details

Lenormand, D., Fauvel, B., & Piolino, P. (2024) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1355343 · Cited by 12

PEPPR: A post-encoding pre-production reinstatement model of dual-list free recall

Healey, M. K., & Wahlheim, C. N. (2023) · Memory & Cognition · doi:10.3758/s13421-023-01453-z · Cited by 9

Autobiographical memories of specific social events for older and younger adults: Context dependency of the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire on recollection of 1970 and 2005 Japan World Expositions1

Shimizu, H., Anderson, D. P., & Takahashi, M. (2011) · Japanese Psychological Research · doi:10.1111/j.1468-5884.2011.00482.x · Cited by 9

Measuring teen dating violence perpetration: A comparison of cumulative and single assessment procedures.

Krauss, A., Jouriles, E. N., McDonald, R., & Rosenfield, D. (2019) · Psychology of Violence · doi:10.1037/vio0000268 · Cited by 9

Histoire et parcours de vie : la perception des changements sociohistoriques

Martenot, A., & Cavalli, S. (2014) · Temporalités · doi:10.4000/temporalites.2882 · Cited by 9

Victor and Catherine Henri on earliest recollections

Nicolas, S., Gounden, Y., & Piolino, P. (2013) · L’Année psychologique · doi:10.4074/s0003503313003035 · Cited by 9

Odor-Based Context Dependent Memory

Larsson, M. U., Arshamian, A., & Kärnekull, S. C. (2017) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26932-0_42 · Cited by 9

The Problem of Infantile Amnesia: Lessons from Fuzzy-Trace Theory

Leichtman, M. D., & Ceci, S. J. (1993) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-9220-0_7 · Cited by 9

Dynamics of structural priming

Malhotra, G. (2009) · ERA · Cited by 9

New Groups and Post-Traumatic Growth: Experimental Evidence That Gaining Group Memberships Supports Recovery From Natural Disaster

Craig, N., Haslam, C., Cruwys, T., & Jetten, J. (2024) · Environment and Behavior · doi:10.1177/00139165241286840 · Cited by 9

Comparative Mental Time Travel: Is There a Cognitive Divide between Humans and Animals in Episodic Memory and Planning?

Feeney, M. C., & Roberts, W. A. (2012) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199738182.013.0013 · Cited by 8

Measuring the Unmeasurable—A Study of Domestic Violence Risk Prediction and Management

Hsieh, T.-C., Wang, Y., Hsieh, Y., Ke, J.-T., Liu, C.-K., & Chen, S.-C. (2018) · Journal of Technology in Human Services · doi:10.1080/15228835.2017.1417953 · Cited by 9

Autobiographical Memory and Social Cognition

Fitzgerald, J. M. (1999) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-012345260-3/50008-2 · Cited by 8

Neuroticism and autobiographical memory for positive and negative events

Okun, M. A., Stock, W. A., Snead, L., & Wierimaa, R. (1987) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/0191-8869(87)90152-8 · Cited by 8

Memory: Autobiographical

Conway, M. (2001) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b0-08-043076-7/01495-9 · Cited by 8

Answering when questions about future events in the context of a calendar system

Golding, J. M., Magliano, J. P., & Baggett, W. B. (1995) · Discourse Processes · doi:10.1080/01638539509544941 · Cited by 7

An Affordance-Based Model of Human Action Selection in a Human–Machine Interaction System with Cognitive Interpretations

Ryu, H. B., Kim, N., Lee, J., & Shin, D. (2016) · International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1080/10447318.2016.1157678 · Cited by 7

Failure to recall: Indications from the english and welsh civil and social justice survey of the relative severity and incidence of civil justice problems

Pleasence, P. T., Balmer, N. J., & Tam, T. (2009) · Sociology of crime, law and deviance · doi:10.1108/s1521-6136(2009)0000012006 · Cited by 7

Modelling Autobiographical Memory Loss across Life Span

Wang, D., Tan, A., Miao, C., & Moustafa, A. A. (2019) · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · doi:10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33011368 · Cited by 7

ON THE FORGETTING OF COLLEGE ACADEMICS: AT "EBBINGHAUS SPEED"?

Subirana, B., Bagiati, A., & Sarma, S. E. (2017) · EDULEARN proceedings · doi:10.21125/edulearn.2017.0672 · Cited by 7

The Role of Information Retrieval in the Diagnostic/Decision making Process within the Medical Appointment: A Review of the Literature

Twomey, M., Sammon, D., & Nagle, T. (2021) · Journal of Decision System · doi:10.1080/12460125.2021.1901334 · Cited by 6

Memory for Early Life Events: Consistency of Retrieval of Memories Over a One-year Interval

Crawley, R. A., & Eacott, M. J. (1999) · Memory · doi:10.1080/741944917 · Cited by 6

Autobiographical memories prime semantic memories on conceptual implicit memory tasks

Mace, J. H., & Aaron, H. E. (2025) · Memory & Cognition · doi:10.3758/s13421-025-01747-4 · Cited by 4

The Relationship-between the Age of First Recognition and First Episodic Reports

Uehara, I. (1998) · The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology · doi:10.5926/jjep1953.46.3_271 · Cited by 4

Anomalies of Autobiographical Memory

Kopelman, M. D., & Loftus, E. F. (1997) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-2672-5_11 · Cited by 4

Crossovers and codeswitching in the investigation of immigrant autobiographical memory

Altman, C., Schrauf, R. W., & Walters, J. (2012) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139035279.009 · Cited by 4

Persona implications of specific long-term memories on social events : Retrospective and current memory of older Japanese adults' experiences of visiting world expositions (日本基礎心理学会 30周年記念企画)

Anderson, D. P., & Shimizu, H. (2015) · 基礎心理学研究 · doi:10.14947/psychono.33.26 · Cited by 4

Memory of where predicts confidence in when: the role of spatial information in dating autobiographical events

Deffler, S. A., Itagaki, M., Valdez, M. R., & Umanath, S. (2022) · Memory · doi:10.1080/09658211.2022.2068608 · Cited by 3

The characteristics of autobiographical memory for purchases: In terms of their temporal distribution and positivity effects in younger and older adults

Akiyama, M., & Shimizu, H. (2012) · The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology · doi:10.5265/jcogpsy.10.67 · Cited by 3

Cuing methodologies in mental time travel

Miles, A. N. (2013) · Nordic Psychology · doi:10.1080/19012276.2013.807660 · Cited by 3

Using Hazard and Surrogate Functions for Understanding Memory and Forgetting

Chechile, R. A. (2022) · AppliedMath · doi:10.3390/appliedmath2040031 · Cited by 3

Galton’s number

Crovitz, H. F., Schiffman, H., & Apter, A. (1991) · Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society · doi:10.3758/bf03333935 · Cited by 3

Autobiographical Recall and Visual Imagery

Huffman, C. M., & Weaver, K. A. (1996) · Perceptual and Motor Skills · doi:10.2466/pms.1996.82.3.1027 · Cited by 3

Patterns of eating and exercise that reduce weight

Laguna‐Camacho, A., & Booth, D. A. (2012) · University of Birmingham Institutional Research Archive (University of Birmingham) · doi:10.13140/rg.2.2.33171.53283 · Cited by 3

Occupational Careers and Job Interruptions: On Methodological Issues of Constructing Long Trajectories

Sawiński, Z. (2016) · International Journal of Sociology · doi:10.1080/00207659.2016.1246290 · Cited by 2

Brain Activity During Autobiographical Retrieval Is Modulated by Emotion and Vividness: Informing the Role of the Amygdala

Bauer, P. J., Stevens, J. S., Stenson, A. F., Waters, T. E. A., & Jackson, F. L. (2017) · InTech eBooks · doi:10.5772/67583 · Cited by 2

Convolution Forgetting Curve Model for Repeated Learning

Xie, Y., Chen, Y., & Li, M. (2020) · doi:10.1109/icaie50891.2020.00109 · Cited by 3

Event characteristics help to explain the distribution of autobiographical memories over the first decade of life

Simpson, E., Lee, K. A., & Bauer, P. J. (2023) · Memory · doi:10.1080/09658211.2023.2212924 · Cited by 2

The Neuropsychology of Autobiographical Memory

Daniel, W. F. (1988) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-5577-9_17 · Cited by 2

Medical professionals’ (mis)remembering of a simulated interaction with a patient: A medical misinformation effectPreprint

Burton-Wood, C. G., Burnell, R., Taylor, A., Brown, D. A., ROBINSON, B. J., & Garry, M. (2019) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/wt8ma · Cited by 2

Autobiographical recall of personally familiar names and temporal information in e-mails: An automatic analytic approach using e-mail communications

Kumar, A. A., Hangal, S., & Rosen, A. C. (2019) · Behavior Research Methods · doi:10.3758/s13428-018-1182-9 · Cited by 1

Adults' Memories of Their Own Childhoods

Pillemer, D. B., & Dickson, R. A. (2014) · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · doi:10.4135/9781446294758.n27 · Cited by 1

What is the source of preschool children's memories of events from their own lives?

Nicoladis, E., Svob, C., & Smithson, L. (2022) · Applied Cognitive Psychology · doi:10.1002/acp.3915 · Cited by 1

Memory

Roediger, H. L., III, & Yamashiro, J. K. (2019) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108290876.008 · Cited by 1

Stealing the past: Disputed memories in twins

Sheen, M. (2002) · UC Research Repository (University of Canterbury) · doi:10.26021/8650 · Cited by 1

The Wider Importance of Autobiographical Memory Research

Holland, C. (1992) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-015-7967-4_11 · Cited by 1

Measuring the unmeasurable - a project of domestic violence risk prediction and managementPreprint

Chen, Y., Liu, C.-K., Wang, Y.-H., Chen, S.-C., Hsieh, Y., Ke, J.-T., & Hsieh, T.-C. (2017) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.06842 · Cited by 1

Transition Theory: Evidence from Personal Transitions and Their Role in the Contents and Organization of Autobiographical Memories

Shi, L. (2017) · ERA: Education and Research Archive (University of Alberta) · doi:10.7939/r35q4s11m · Cited by 1

Non-monotonic recruitment of ventromedial prefrontal cortex during remote memory recallPreprint

Barry, D. N., Chadwick, M. J., & Maguire, E. A. (2017) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/202689 · Cited by 1

A Post-Encoding Pre-Production Reinstatement (PEPPR) Model of Dual-List Free RecallPreprint

Healey, K., & Wahlheim, C. N. (2021) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/dftkv · Cited by 1

Long-term Memory Reorganization of Navigational Episodes

Iggena, D., Schmelter, T., Maier, P. M., Reguieg, K., Finke, C., Hildebrand, K., & Ploner, C. J. (2026) · Nature Human Behaviour · doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02472-x

The Differences in the Content of Autobiographical Memory Due to Family Factors in Adolescents

Rotărescu, V. S. (2014) · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.03.339

Practical Issues in Collecting Lifetime Work Histories in Surveys1

Campanelli, P., & Thomas, R. (1994) · Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique · doi:10.1177/075910639404200104

Memória autobiográfica e eventos estressores traumáticos

Lorenzzoni, P. L. (2012) · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)

Remembering Reconsidered: Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory. Edited by U. Neisser and E. Winograd. (Pp. 390; £30.00) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1988.

Conway, M. (1989) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291700005778

Bringing to Remembrance: The Trauma Memory Debate

Williams, M. S. (1998) · ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University)

IN COGNITIVE-PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS

Sweeney, J. A. (1985)

Parcours de vie et mémoires de pauvres

Martenot, A. (2019) · Peter Lang CH eBooks · doi:10.3726/b15940

The development of event clusters in autobiographical memory

Svob, C. (2010) · ERA: Education and Research Archive (University of Alberta) · doi:10.7939/r3dh5n

Using a Neurocomputational Autobiographical Memory Model to Study Memory Loss

Wang, D., Moustafa, A. A., Tan, A., & Miao, C. (2019) · Springer series in cognitive and neural systems · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18830-6_15

Infrequent Walks down Memory Lane: People Overestimate How Much They Will Retrospect about ExperiencesPreprint

Tully, S. M., & Meyvis, T. (2016) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2883213

Victor and Catherine Henri on earliest recollections

Nicolas, S., Gounden, Y., & Piolino, P. (2013) · L’Année psychologique · doi:10.3917/anpsy.133.0349

References

Jeeves, M. A. (1986) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-009-4420-6_46

Autobiographical memory: Measurement tasks and its structures

MATSUMOTO, N. (2022) · The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology · doi:10.5265/jcogpsy.19.39 · Cited by 1

References

Goswami, U. (2002) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9780470996652.refs

Understanding Human Life

Courgeau, D. (2022) · Methodos series · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16143-8

Autobiographical Memory and Its Critics

Courgeau, D. (2022) · Methodos series · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16143-8_8

Towards an ecologically valid naturalistic cognitive neuroscience of episodic memory and event cognition: A literature review and synthesisPreprint

Pooja, R., Ghosh, P., & Sreekumar, V. (2023) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/3je65

How Parental Incarceration Shapes the Timing and Structure of Fertility for Children of Incarcerated Parents

McCauley, E. (2024) · Demography · doi:10.1215/00703370-11164302

Az emlékezet fejlődése: Frissítés és revízió

Liszkai-Peres, K. (2023) · Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem · doi:10.15476/elte.2022.226

References

(2004) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615377404.bm02

Age-related differences in autobiographical memory consistency at the level of narrative detail

Spradling, E. G., Lee, K. A., Solar, B. D., & Bauer, P. J. (2025) · Cognitive Development · doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101590

Aesthetic experience is supported by spontaneous autobiographical memory recollection

Smith, A. P., Brigard, F. D., & Marsh, E. J. (2025) · Memory & Cognition · doi:10.3758/s13421-025-01795-w · Cited by 2

The Role of L2 and Cultural Awareness in Memory Recall: A Cross-Cultural Study

Chen, C.-Y. T., & Chen, C.-Y. D. (2024) · Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology · doi:10.47298/jala.v6-i4-a1

The role of reactivations during consolidation in the structure and accessibility of episodic autobiographical memories

Lenormand, D., Gaston‐Bellegarde, A., Orriols, É., & Piolino, P. (2026) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-026-37539-2

Victor and Catherine Henri on earliest recollections

Nicolas, S., Gounden, Y., & Piolino, P. (2013) · L’Année psychologique · doi:10.3917/e.anpsy.133.0349

Autobiographical memories prime semantic memories on the general knowledge task: More evidence of a functional relationship between autobiographical memory and semantic memory

Mace, J. H., Parker, K. R., & Woerner, J. D. (2026) · Psychological Research · doi:10.1007/s00426-026-02345-y

Earliest memories and family history knowledge among New Zealand Māori, European, and Chinese adolescents in relation to identity and well-being

Reese, E., Chen, Y., Myftari, E., McAnally, H. M., & Neha, T. N. (2026) · Memory · doi:10.1080/09658211.2026.2727406

Memoria explícita y cognición social en desmovilizados con estrés postraumático: modelo relacional

López, C. Q., Vera, V. D. G., Espinosa, Y. P. E., Amalin, J., & Saldarriaga, S. O. (2026) · doi:10.21501/9786287765375.1

Involuntary Retrieval from Autobiographical Memory and The Nature of Cues

Batool, I. (2013) · Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull)

Untitled work

(2000) · PubMed · Cited by 240

If My Memory Serves Me Well: Investigating My Memory for the Past 24 Years

Storms, G. (2024) · Journal of Cognition · doi:10.5334/joc.334 · Cited by 1

Functional anatomy of episodic autobiographical memory: differential activations according to retention interval

Giffard-Quillon, G., Piolino, P., Desgranges, B., Baron, J., & Eustache, F. (2001) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(01)92018-x

Retrieval characteristics of autobiographical memories: Event and date information

Burt, C. D. B. (1992) · Applied Cognitive Psychology · doi:10.1002/acp.2350060504 · Cited by 72

Autobiographical memory in two older adults over a twenty-year retention interval

Catal, L. L., & Fitzgerald, J. M. (2004) · Memory & Cognition · doi:10.3758/bf03196861 · Cited by 36

La localización temporal de recuerdos autobiográficos The temporary location of autobiographical memories

Azzollini, S., & Díaz‐González, F. (2007) · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)