Adults' reports of their earliest memories: Consistency in events, ages, and narrative characteristics over time

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 76-88

  Bauer, Patricia J ^a   Tasdemir Ozdes, Aylin ^b   Larkina, Marina ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Childhood amnesia; Consistency; Earliest memories; Narrative; Self

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHRONOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLIEST MEMORY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEMORY; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; TIME; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EGO; EPISODIC MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION;

EID: 84900476344     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.04.008     Document Type: Article

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