Autobiographical memory

Autobiographical memory is memory for events and experiences from one’s own life, combining recollections of particular episodes with knowledge about one’s personal past.

Episodic memory: Memory for personally experienced events, including their context in time and place. It supplies the event-specific recollections that form one part of autobiographical memory.
Memory retrieval: The process of accessing information stored in memory. Autobiographical recollection is a form of retrieval shaped by available cues.
Autobiographical memory interview: A structured assessment that measures the specificity and richness of personal event memories. It provides a method for assessing how people retrieve episodes from their lives.
Endel Tulving: A cognitive psychologist known for influential research distinguishing episodic from semantic memory. His account of episodic memory shaped explanations of recollection for personal events.
False memory: A recollection of an event that did not happen or differs substantially from what happened. Autobiographical memories can feel compelling while containing invented or altered details.
Semantic memory: Memory for facts and concepts, without requiring recollection of the experience in which they were learned. Personal facts, such as former addresses, can persist without reliving a specific episode.
Cue-dependent forgetting: Failure to retrieve information because effective retrieval cues are absent. A place, object, or phrase can unlock a personal event that otherwise remains inaccessible.
Autobiographical memory test: A cue-word task that assesses whether a person retrieves specific events from their past. It measures overgeneral retrieval, a pattern studied in depression and other conditions.
Martin Conway: A cognitive psychologist whose research examines autobiographical memory and its relation to the self. His self-memory system explains how personal goals guide memory construction.
Source-monitoring error: Mistaking the source of a memory, such as confusing imagination with perception. It helps explain how imagined personal events can later seem genuinely experienced.

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