Placing events in time: The role of autobiographical recollection

摘要: Episodic experience is argued to be rich in temporal information, but it remains unclear whether information directly coded the event memory or reconstructed at retrieval. The two experiments reported here emphasise role of reconstructive processes autobiographical context establishing date memories. Younger and older participants were presented with famous public events, although only latter had actually lived through them. Participants asked make forced-choice judgements about other event-related facts. Overall, while group showed better fact knowledge this did not translate into dating performance. This similar performance across events high low factual knowledge. In contrast, younger group's accuracy was determined by their level suggests that individuals who have direct episodic an may perform task a qualitatively different manner, eschewing semantic facts favour sources information. Crucially, process does appear enhance A second experiment addressed issue based on general qualities (e.g., vividness), availability facts, context. It found ability place related accuracy, aspects