The reminiscence bump for salient personal memories: Is a cultural life script required?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 977-991

  Dickson, Ryan A ^a   Pillemer, David B ^a   Bruehl, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Emotion; Recall

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CUES; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055029472     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0082-3     Document Type: Article

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