The autobiographical memory interview: a new assessment of autobiographical and personal semantic memory in amnesic patients

M D Kopelman, B A Wilson, Alan Baddeley

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Abstract

This paper describes a new technique for assessing "autobiographical" and "personal semantic" memory in amnesic patients and healthy controls. It provides evidence of the reliability and validity of the procedure, and reports an age-related temporal gradient in amnesic patients. The results are considered in terms of the severity, the rate of onset, and the duration of the amnesia; and a preliminary analysis is given of the findings in different diagnostic groups. The findings indicate that autobiographical and personal semantic memory show a consistent pattern of impairment, when a comparison is made which controls for the age of the memories and the subject's own past experience.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)724-44
Number of pages21
JournalJOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume11
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1989

Keywords

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Amnesia
  • Autobiography as Topic
  • Humans
  • Memory
  • Mental Recall
  • Middle Aged
  • Psychometrics

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