Things that go bump in your life: Explaining the reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-91

  Jansari, Ashok ^a   Parkin, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0029878228     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.11.1.85     Document Type: Article

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