Abstract

AZZOLLINI, Susana  and  GONZALEZ, Federico. The temporary location of autobiographical memories. Anu. investig. [online]. 2007, vol.14, pp.00-00. ISSN 1851-1686.

The aim of this study was to analyse the recovery of episodic memories in order to know which was the proportion of the recovery of temporal location included in remembered events and to identify the relationship between temporal location memories recovery with its saliency. Secondly, the relationship between the outgoing with the emotion and its relative importance in the self image construction. Two researchers daily checked events of their life for one year. They had to take notes about where the event had taken place, the people involved, the feelings or emotions provoked to it. They had to put marks in different scales: frequency, saliency, emotionality, pleasure/displeasure and which grade of importance was attributed to their self image construction. After a month of the last registry of the clues: what, who, when, where and feelings involved; a few of them were chosen at random. The results showed a big augment of recovery of more emotional infrequent facts. Nevertheless, it does not seem to depend on the pleasure/ displeasure associated to them. Chronological information had been forgotten several times in the memories and it was not useful as a search criterion. These findings evidence that in general the events are not stored per dates. The clue privileged for the recovery of memories was what, which suggests that autobiographical memories are mostly organised in non temporary categories.

Keywords : Autobiographical memory; Temporary location; Emotionality; Personal image.

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