Lifespan trends of autobiographical remembering: Episodicity and search for meaning

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1061-1073

  Habermas, Tilmann ^a   Diel, Verena ^a   Welzer, Harald ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Autobiographical narrating; Lifespan; Semantization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EPISODICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEMORY; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TREND STUDY; WORKING MEMORY;

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATING; LIFESPAN; SEMANTIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882699399     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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