Organisation and retrieval: the generation of event clusters.
The present research examined the nature of autobiographical memory event clusters. Specifically we were interested in the interplay between the content and organisation of autobiographical memory with retrieval in determining the similarity of event memories across time. Using an event cueing procedure, clusters of related event memories were generated. Participants sorted these events into meaningful groups after a delay of several weeks. The results suggest that participants' ability to perform this sorting task is dependent on their ability to reinstate the retrieval context. Further our results suggest that event clusters are chains of related event memories as opposed to clusters of interrelated event memories.
Odegard
Timothy N
TN
Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas, 216 Memorial Hall, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. todegar@uark.edu
Lampinen
James M
JM
Wirth-Beaumont
Erin T
ET
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003071:Cognition; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D011336:Probability; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013997:Time Factors; D014936:Word Association Tests