The reminiscence bump without memories: The distribution of imagined word-cued and important autobiographical memories in a hypothetical 70-year-old |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Sport and Exercise Science, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia;2. James Cook University, Cairns, Australia;3. Apunipima Cape York Health Council, Cairns, Australia;4. Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;5. University of St Mark & St John, UK;1. Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt;2. Center for Nanoelectronics and Devices, Zewail City of Science and Technology, AUC, Egypt;1. College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shen Zhen, PR China;2. Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, US;3. Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, PR China;4. Department of Computer Science, The Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, PR China |
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| Abstract: | The reminiscence bump is the disproportionate number of autobiographical memories dating from adolescence and early adulthood. It has often been ascribed to a consolidation of the mature self in the period covered by the bump. Here we stripped away factors relating to the characteristics of autobiographical memories per se, most notably factors that aid in their encoding or retention, by asking students to generate imagined word-cued and imagined ‘most important’ autobiographical memories of a hypothetical, prototypical 70-year-old of their own culture and gender. We compared the distribution of these fictional memories with the distributions of actual word-cued and most important autobiographical memories in a sample of 61–70-year-olds. We found a striking similarity between the temporal distributions of the imagined memories and the actual memories. These results suggest that the reminiscence bump is largely driven by constructive, schematic factors at retrieval, thereby challenging most existing theoretical accounts. |
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| Keywords: | Autobiographical memory Cultural life script Important memories Reminiscence bump Word-cued memories |
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