The autobiographical memory interview: a new assessment of autobiographical and personal semantic memory in amnesic patients.
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.
Kopelman
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MD
Institute of Psychiatry, London.
Wilson
B A
BA
Baddeley
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AD
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000647:Amnesia / Q000523:psychology*; D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics