Open materials and data are all available on OSF, linked in the article. This includes ~2500 brief descriptions of autobiographical memories, and loads of supplementary analyses I couldn't fit in the main paper.
I hope this will be interesting/useful for other autobiographical memory researchers!
> The pattern of responding was almost identical for young and older adults
> There was a slight preference for word cues over visual cues in older adults, and the reverse in young adults
Some patterns I found:
> People retrieved AMs more easily when cues were more closely mapped to the task requirements (event cues, more specific cues)
> Cues that facilitated easier retrieval also generally produced memories that were less autobiographically significant
I was interested in how easy it was to retrieve an autobiographical memory in response to the different cues, and also the characteristics of the memories that were retrieved (personal importance, rehearsal, vividness, age at encoding)
Cues were selected to vary along different potentially relevant dimensions - imagery, specificity, amount of info they contained - as well as the kind of meanings they invoked - events, locations, autobiographical evaluation...
I had this paper accepted just before Christmas... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It's a bit of a sprawling, exploratory piece of research, in which I presented participants with a wide range of autobiographical retrieval cues and tried to look for patterns in how people responded.
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Oh cool! Thanks I'll have a look!
