Publication Cover
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
A Journal on Normal and Dysfunctional Development
Volume 25, 2018 - Issue 6
2,408
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Review Articles

The relationship between autobiographical memory, cognition, and emotion in older adults: a review

&
Pages 874-892 | Received 17 May 2017, Accepted 04 Sep 2017, Published online: 12 Sep 2017

References

  • Addis, D. R., Wong, A. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2008). Age-related changes in the episodic simulation of future events. Psychological Science, 19(1), 33–41. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02043.x
  • Alexander, W. H., & Brown, J. W. (2011). Medial prefrontal cortex as an action-outcome predictor. Nature Neuroscience, 14(10), 1338–1344. doi:10.1038/nn.2921
  • Andreasen, N. C., Leary, D. S., Cizadlo, T., & Arndt, S. (1995). Remembering the past: Two facets of episodic memory explored with positron emission tomography. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 152(11), 1576–1585. doi:10.1176/ajp.152.11.1576
  • Arbuckle, T. Y., & Gold, D. P. (1993). Axging, inhibition, and verbosity. Journal of Gerontology, 48(5), 225–232. doi:10.1093/geronj/48.5.P225
  • Argembeau, A. D., Comblain, C., & Linden, M. (2005). Affective valence and the self‐reference effect: Influence of retrieval conditions. British Journal of Psychology, 96(4), 457–466. doi:10.1348/000712605X53218
  • Ball, K., Berch, D. B., Helmers, K. F., Jobe, J. B., Leveck, M. D., Marsiske, M., … Tennstedt, S. L. (2002). Effects of cognitive training interventions with older adults: A randomized controlled trial. Jama, 288(18), 2271–2281. doi:10.1001/jama.288.18.2271
  • Ball, K., Owsley, C., Stalvey, B., Roenker, D. L., Sloane, M. E., & Graves, M. (1998). Driving avoidance and functional impairment in older drivers. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 30(3), 313–322. doi:10.1016/S0001-4575(97)00102-4
  • Bechara, A., & Damasio, A. R. (2005). The somatic marker hypothesis: A neural theory of economic decision. Games and Economic Behavior, 52(2), 336–372. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2004.06.010
  • Bonnelle, V., Ham, T. E., Leech, R., Kinnunen, K. M., Mehta, M. A., Greenwood, R. J., & Sharp, D. J. (2012). Salience network integrity predicts default mode network function after traumatic brain injury. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(12), 4690–4695. doi:10.1073/pnas.1113455109
  • Brewin, C. R., Reynolds, M., & Tata, P. (1999). Autobiographical memory processes and the course of depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108(3), 511–517. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.108.3.511
  • Brittlebank, A., Scott, J., Williams, J. M., & Ferrier, I. (1993). Autobiographical memory in depression: State or trait marker? The British Journal of Psychiatry, 162(1), 118–121. doi:10.1192/bjp.162.1.118
  • Buckner, R. L. (2012). The serendipitous discovery of the brain’s default network. Neuroimage, 62(2), 1137–1145. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.035
  • Buckner, R. L., Andrews‐Hanna, J. R., & Schacter, D. L. (2008). The brain’s default network. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1124(1), 1–38. doi:10.1196/annals.1440.011
  • Buckner, R. L., & Carroll, D. C. (2007). Self-projection and the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(2), 49–57. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2006.11.004
  • Carlson, M. C., Hasher, L., Connelly, S. L., & Zacks, R. T. (1995). Aging, distraction, and the benefits of predictable location. Psychology and Aging, 10(3), 427–436. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.10.3.427
  • Christoff, K., Gordon, A. M., Smallwood, J., Smith, R., & Schooler, J. W. (2009). Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(21), 8719–8724. doi:10.1073/pnas.0900234106
  • Conway, M. A. (1990). Associations between autobiographical memories and concepts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning. Memory, and Cognition, 16(5), 799-812. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.16.5.799
  • Conway, M. A. (2001). Sensory–perceptual episodic memory and its context: Autobiographical memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 356(1413), 1375–1384. doi:10.1098/rstb.2001.0940
  • Conway, M. A., & Pleydell-Pearce, C. W. (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Psychological Review, 107(2), 261–288. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.107.2.261
  • Craik, F. I., & Park, D. (2000). Age-related changes in human memory. Cognitive Aging: A Primer, 5, 75–92.
  • Dalgleish, T., Williams, J. M. G., Golden, A.-M. J., Perkins, N., Barrett, L. F., Barnard, P. J., … Tchanturia, K. (2007). Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory and depression: The role of executive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136(1), 23–42. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.136.1.23
  • Damoiseaux, J., Beckmann, C., Arigita, E. S., Barkhof, F., Scheltens, P., Stam, C., … Rombouts, S. (2008). Reduced resting-state brain activity in the “default network” in normal aging. Cerebral Cortex, 18(8), 1856–1864. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm207
  • Davis, S. W., Dennis, N. A., Daselaar, S. M., Fleck, M. S., & Cabeza, R. (2008). Que PASA? The posterior–anterior shift in aging. Cerebral Cortex, 18(5), 1201–1209. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm155
  • Etkin, A., Egner, T., & Kalisch, R. (2011). Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(2), 85–93. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2010.11.004
  • Euston, D. R., Gruber, A. J., & McNaughton, B. L. (2012). The role of medial prefrontal cortex in memory and decision making. Neuron, 76(6), 1057–1070. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.002
  • Evans, J., Williams, J., O’loughlin, S., & Howells, K. (1992). Autobiographical memory and problem-solving strategies of parasuicide patients. Psychological Medicine, 22(02), 399–405. doi:10.1017/S0033291700030348
  • Fellows, L. K., & Farah, M. J. (2007). The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in decision making: Judgment under uncertainty or judgment per se? Cerebral Cortex, 17(11), 2669–2674. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhl176
  • Gidron, Y., & Alon, S. (2007). Autobiographical memory and depression in the later age: The bump is a turning point. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 64(1), 1–11. doi:10.2190/96L8-6J35-0297-M403
  • Goddard, L., Dritschel, B., & Burton, A. (1996). Role of autobiographical memory in social problem solving and depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105(4), 609–616. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.105.4.609
  • Grady, C. L., Springer, M. V., Hongwanishkul, D., McIntosh, A. R., & Winocur, G. (2006). Age-related changes in brain activity across the adult lifespan. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(2), 227–241. doi:10.1162/jocn.2006.18.2.227
  • Gusnard, D. A., Akbudak, E., Shulman, G. L., & Raichle, M. E. (2001). Medial prefrontal cortex and self-referential mental activity: Relation to a default mode of brain function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(7), 4259–4264. doi:10.1073/pnas.071043098
  • Hahn, B., Ross, T. J., Yang, Y., Kim, I., Huestis, M. A., & Stein, E. A. (2007). Nicotine enhances visuospatial attention by deactivating areas of the resting brain default network. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(13), 3477–3489. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5129-06.2007
  • Hampson, M., Driesen, N. R., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J. C., & Constable, R. T. (2006). Brain connectivity related to working memory performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(51), 13338–13343. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3408-06.2006
  • Harada, C. N., Love, M. C. N., & Triebel, K. L. (2013). Normal cognitive aging. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 29(4), 737–752. doi:10.1016/j.cger.2013.07.002
  • Hasher, L., & Zacks, R. T. (1988). Working memory, comprehension, and aging: A review and a new view. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 22, 193–225.
  • Hermans, D., Defranc, A., Raes, F., Williams, J. M. G., & Eelen, P. (2005). Reduced autobiographical memory specificity as an avoidant coping style. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44(4), 583–589. doi:10.1348/014466505X53461
  • Holland, C., & Rabbitt, P. (1990). Autobiographical and text recall in the elderly: An investigation of a processing resource deficit. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 42(3), 441–470. doi:10.1080/14640749008401232
  • Holland, C. A., Ridout, N., Walford, E., & Geraghty, J. (2012). Executive function and emotional focus in autobiographical memory specificity in older adults. Memory, 20(8), 779–793. doi:10.1080/09658211.2012.703210
  • Iacoboni, M., Lieberman, M. D., Knowlton, B. J., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Moritz, M., Throop, C. J., & Fiske, A. P. (2004). Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baseline. Neuroimage, 21(3), 1167–1173. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.013
  • Koch, I., Gade, M., Schuch, S., & Philipp, A. M. (2010). The role of inhibition in task switching: A review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(1), 1–14. doi:10.3758/PBR.17.1.1
  • Kopelman, M., Wilson, B., & Baddeley, A. (1989). The autobiographical memory interview: A new assessment of autobiographical and personal semantic memory in amnesic patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 11(5), 724–744. doi:10.1080/01688638908400928
  • Kramer, A. F., Larish, J. F., & Strayer, D. L. (1995). Training for attentional control in dual task settings: A comparison of young and old adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 1(1), 50–76.
  • Kuyken, W., & Brewin, C. R. (1995). Autobiographical memory functioning in depression and reports of early abuse. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104(4), 585–591. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.104.4.585
  • Lalanne, J., Gallarda, T., & Piolino, P. (2015). “The Castle of Remembrance”: New insights from a cognitive training programme for autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 25(2), 254–282. doi:10.1080/09602011.2014.949276
  • Leech, R., & Sharp, D. J. (2014). The role of the posterior cingulate cortex in cognition and disease. Brain, 137(1), 12–32. doi:10.1093/brain/awt162
  • Levine, B., Svoboda, E., Hay, J. F., Winocur, G., & Moscovitch, M. (2002). Aging and autobiographical memory: Dissociating episodic from semantic retrieval. Psychology and Aging, 17(4), 677–689. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.17.4.677
  • Lopes, T. S., Afonso, R. M. L. B. M., & Ribeiro, Ó. M. (2016). A quasi-experimental study of a reminiscence program focused on autobiographical memory in institutionalized older adults with cognitive impairment. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 66, 183–192. doi:10.1016/j.archger.2016.05.007
  • Lustig, C., Snyder, A. Z., Bhakta, M., O’Brien, K. C., McAvoy, M., Raichle, M. E., … Buckner, R. L. (2003). Functional deactivations: Change with age and dementia of the Alzheimer type. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(24), 14504–14509. doi:10.1073/pnas.2235925100
  • Mackinger, H. F., Pachinger, M. M., Leibetseder, M. M., & Fartacek, R. R. (2000). Autobiographical memories in women remitted from major depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109(2), 331–334. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.109.2.331
  • Macrae, C. N., Moran, J. M., Heatherton, T. F., Banfield, J. F., & Kelley, W. M. (2004). Medial prefrontal activity predicts memory for self. Cerebral Cortex, 14(6), 647–654. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhh025
  • Maddock, R. J., Garrett, A. S., & Buonocore, M. H. (2001). Remembering familiar people: The posterior cingulate cortex and autobiographical memory retrieval. Neuroscience, 104(3), 667–676. doi:10.1016/S0306-4522(01)00108-7
  • Maguire, E. A. (2001). Neuroimaging studies of autobiographical event memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 356(1413), 1441–1451. doi:10.1098/rstb.2001.0944
  • Markowitsch, H. J., Vandekerckhove, M. M., Lanfermann, H., & Russ, M. O. (2003). Engagement of lateral and medial prefrontal areas in the ecphory of sad and happy autobiographical memories. Cortex, 39(4), 643–665. doi:10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70858-X
  • Mason, M. F., Norton, M. I., Van Horn, J. D., Wegner, D. M., Grafton, S. T., & Macrae, C. N. (2007). Wandering minds: The default network and stimulus-independent thought. Science, 315(5810), 393–395. doi:10.1126/science.1131295
  • Mayer, A. R., Mannell, M. V., Ling, J., Gasparovic, C., & Yeo, R. A. (2011). Functional connectivity in mild traumatic brain injury. Human Brain Mapping, 32(11), 1825–1835. doi:10.1002/hbm.21151
  • McIntyre, J. S., & Craik, F. I. (1987). Age differences in memory for item and source information. Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne De Psychologie, 41(2), 175–192.
  • Mevel, K., Landeau, B., Fouquet, M., La Joie, R., Villain, N., Mézenge, F., & Chételat, G. (2013). Age effect on the default mode network, inner thoughts, and cognitive abilities. Neurobiology of Aging, 34(4), 1292–1301. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.08.018
  • Miller, E. K., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 24(1), 167–202. doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.24.1.167
  • Miller, S. L., Celone, K., DePeau, K., Diamond, E., Dickerson, B. C., Rentz, D., … Sperling, R. A. (2008). Age-related memory impairment associated with loss of parietal deactivation but preserved hippocampal activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(6), 2181–2186. doi:10.1073/pnas.0706818105
  • Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (1991). Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100(4), 569–582. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.100.4.569
  • Ochsner, K. N., Ray, R. D., Cooper, J. C., Robertson, E. R., Chopra, S., Gabrieli, J. D., & Gross, J. J. (2004). For better or for worse: Neural systems supporting the cognitive down-and up-regulation of negative emotion. Neuroimage, 23(2), 483–499. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.06.030
  • Oosterman, J. M., Vogels, R. L., Van Harten, B., Gouw, A. A., Poggesi, A., Scheltens, P., … Scherder, E. J. (2010). Assessing mental flexibility: Neuroanatomical and neuropsychological correlates of the trail making test in elderly people. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 24(2), 203–219. doi:10.1080/13854040903482848
  • Papez, J. W. (1937). A proposed mechanism of emotion. Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry, 38(4), 725–743. doi:10.1001/archneurpsyc.1937.02260220069003
  • Philippi, C. L., Tranel, D., Duff, M., & Rudrauf, D. (2015). Damage to the default mode network disrupts autobiographical memory retrieval. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(3), 318–326. doi:10.1093/scan/nsu070
  • Phillips, S., & Williams, J. M. G. (1997). Cognitive impairment, depression and the specificity of autobiographical memory in the elderly. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 36(3), 341–347. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8260.1997.tb01242.x
  • Piolino, P., Chételat, G., Matuszewski, V., Landeau, B., Mézenge, F., Viader, F., … Desgranges, B. (2007). In search of autobiographical memories: A PET study in the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia, 45(12), 2730–2743. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.04.013
  • Piolino, P., Coste, C., Martinelli, P., Macé, A.-L., Quinette, P., Guillery-Girard, B., & Belleville, S. (2010). Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory and aging: Do the executive and feature binding functions of working memory have a role? Neuropsychologia, 48(2), 429–440. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.035
  • Piolino, P., Desgranges, B., Benali, K., & Eustache, F. (2002). Episodic and semantic remote autobiographical memory in ageing. Memory, 10(4), 239–257. doi:10.1080/09658210143000353
  • Piolino, P., Desgranges, B., & Eustache, F. (2009). Episodic autobiographical memories over the course of time: Cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings. Neuropsychologia, 47(11), 2314–2329. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.01.020
  • Piolino, P., Desgranges, B., Hubert, V., Bernard, F. A., Matuszewski, V., Chételat, G., … Eustache, F. (2008). Reliving lifelong episodic autobiographical memories via the hippocampus: A correlative resting PET study in healthy middle‐aged subjects. Hippocampus, 18(5), 445–459. doi:10.1002/hipo.20406
  • Piolino, P., Giffard-Quillon, G., Desgranges, B., Chételat, G., Baron, J.-C., & Eustache, F. (2004). Re-experiencing old memories via hippocampus: A PET study of autobiographical memory. Neuroimage, 22(3), 1371–1383. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.02.025
  • Quirk, G. J., & Beer, J. S. (2006). Prefrontal involvement in the regulation of emotion: Convergence of rat and human studies. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16(6), 723–727. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2006.07.004
  • Raes, F., Hermans, D., Williams, J. M. G., Beyers, W., Eelen, P., & Brunfaut, E. (2006). Reduced autobiographical memory specificity and rumination in predicting the course of depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115(4), 699–704. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.115.4.699
  • Raes, F., Hermans, D., Williams, J. M. G., Demyttenaere, K., Sabbe, B., Pieters, G., & Eelen, P. (2005). Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory: A mediator between rumination and ineffective social problem-solving in major depression? Journal of Affective Disorders, 87(2), 331–335. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2005.05.004
  • Raes, F., Hermans, D., Williams, J. M. G., & Eelen, P. (2007). A sentence completion procedure as an alternative to the autobiographical memory test for assessing overgeneral memory in non-clinical populations. Memory, 15(5), 495–507. doi:10.1080/09658210701390982
  • Raes, F., Williams, J. M. G., & Hermans, D. (2009). Reducing cognitive vulnerability to depression: A preliminary investigation of memory specificity training (MEST) in inpatients with depressive symptomatology. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40(1), 24–38. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2008.03.001
  • Raichle, M. E., MacLeod, A. M., Snyder, A. Z., Powers, W. J., Gusnard, D. A., & Shulman, G. L. (2001). A default mode of brain function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(2), 676–682. doi:10.1073/pnas.98.2.676
  • Rebok, G. W., Carlson, M. C., & Langbaum, J. B. (2007). Training and maintaining memory abilities in healthy older adults: Traditional and novel approaches. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 62(Special Issue 1), 53–61. doi:10.1093/geronb/62.special_issue_1.53
  • Ricarte, J., Hernández-Viadel, J., Latorre, J., & Ros, L. (2012). Effects of event-specific memory training on autobiographical memory retrieval and depressive symptoms in schizophrenic patients. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 12–20. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.06.001
  • Ricarte, J., Hernández-Viadel, J., Latorre, J., Ros, L., & Serrano, J. (2014). Effects of specific positive events training on autobiographical memories in people with schizophrenia. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 38(4), 407–415. doi:10.1007/s10608-014-9610-3
  • Ricarte, J. J., Latorre, J. M., Ros, L., Navarro, B., Aguilar, M. J., & Serrano, J. P. (2011). Overgeneral autobiographical memory effect in older depressed adults. Aging & Mental Health, 15(8), 1028–1037. doi:10.1080/13607863.2011.573468
  • Ries, M. L., Schmitz, T. W., Kawahara, T. N., Torgerson, B. M., Trivedi, M. A., & Johnson, S. C. (2006). Task-dependent posterior cingulate activation in mild cognitive impairment. Neuroimage, 29(2), 485–492. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.030
  • Salthouse, T. A. (2010). Selective review of cognitive aging. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16(5), 754–760. doi:10.1017/S1355617710000706
  • Salthouse, T. A., Fristoe, N. M., Lineweaver, T. T., & Coon, V. E. (1995). Aging of attention: Does the ability to divide decline? Memory & Cognition, 23(1), 59–71. doi:10.3758/BF03210557
  • Salthouse, T. A., Mitchell, D. R., Skovronek, E., & Babcock, R. L. (1989). Effects of adult age and working memory on reasoning and spatial abilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15(3), 507–516.
  • Schacter, D. L., Addis, D. R., & Buckner, R. L. (2007). Remembering the past to imagine the future: The prospective brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8(9), 657–661. doi:10.1038/nrn2213
  • Serrano, J. P., Latorre, J. M., & Gatz, M. (2007). Autobiographical memory in older adults with and without depressive symptoms. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 7(1), 41–57.
  • Serrano, J. P., Latorre, J. M., Gatz, M., & Montanes, J. (2004). Life review therapy using autobiographical retrieval practice for older adults with depressive symptomatology. Psychology and Aging, 19(2), 270–277. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.19.2.272
  • Sharp, D. J., Beckmann, C. F., Greenwood, R., Kinnunen, K. M., Bonnelle, V., De Boissezon, X., … Leech, R. (2011). Default mode network functional and structural connectivity after traumatic brain injury. Brain, 134(8), 2233–2247. doi:10.1093/brain/awr175
  • Sheline, Y. I., Barch, D. M., Price, J. L., Rundle, M. M., Vaishnavi, S. N., Snyder, A. Z., … Raichle, M. E. (2009). The default mode network and self-referential processes in depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(6), 1942–1947. doi:10.1073/pnas.0812686106
  • Shulman, G. L., Fiez, J. A., Corbetta, M., Buckner, R. L., Miezin, F. M., Raichle, M. E., & Petersen, S. E. (1997). Common blood flow changes across visual tasks: II. Decreases in cerebral cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9(5), 648–663. doi:10.1162/jocn.1997.9.5.648
  • Silsupadol, P., Shumway-Cook, A., Lugade, V., Van Donkelaar, P., Chou, L.-S., Mayr, U., & Woollacott, M. H. (2009). Effects of single-task versus dual-task training on balance performance in older adults: A double-blind, randomized controlled trial. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 90(3), 381–387. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2008.09.559
  • Singh-Manoux, A., Kivimaki, M., Glymour, M. M., Elbaz, A., Berr, C., Ebmeier, K. P., … Dugravot, A. (2012). Timing of onset of cognitive decline: Results from Whitehall II prospective cohort study. Bmj, 344, d7622. doi:10.1136/bmj.d7622
  • Spencer, W. D., & Raz, N. (1995). Differential effects of aging on memory for content and context: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 10(4), 527–539. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.10.4.527
  • Spreng, R. N., & Grady, C. L. (2010). Patterns of brain activity supporting autobiographical memory, prospection, and theory of mind, and their relationship to the default mode network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(6), 1112–1123. doi:10.1162/jocn.2009.21282
  • Spreng, R. N., & Mar, R. A. (2012). I remember you: A role for memory in social cognition and the functional neuroanatomy of their interaction. Brain Research, 1428, 43–50. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2010.12.024
  • Spreng, R. N., Mar, R. A., & Kim, A. S. (2009). The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind, and the default mode: A quantitative meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(3), 489–510. doi:10.1162/jocn.2008.21029
  • St. Jacques, P. L., & Levine, B. (2007). Ageing and autobiographical memory for emotional and neutral events. Memory, 15(2), 129–144. doi:10.1080/09658210601119762
  • Svoboda, E., McKinnon, M. C., & Levine, B. (2006). The functional neuroanatomy of autobiographical memory: A meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 44(12), 2189–2208. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.05.023
  • Tulving, E., Schacter, D. L., McLachlan, D. R., & Moscovitch, M. (1988). Priming of semantic autobiographical knowledge: A case study of retrograde amnesia. Brain and Cognition, 8(1), 3–20. doi:10.1016/0278-2626(88)90035-8
  • Urry, H. L., Van Reekum, C. M., Johnstone, T., Kalin, N. H., Thurow, M. E., Schaefer, H. S., … Alexander, A. L. (2006). Amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex are inversely coupled during regulation of negative affect and predict the diurnal pattern of cortisol secretion among older adults. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(16), 4415–4425. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3215-05.2006
  • Van Den Heuvel, M., Mandl, R., Luigjes, J., & Pol, H. H. (2008). Microstructural organization of the cingulum tract and the level of default mode functional connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(43), 10844–10851. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2964-08.2008
  • Wecker, N. S., Kramer, J. H., Hallam, B. J., & Delis, D. C. (2005). Mental flexibility: Age effects on switching. Neuropsychology, 19(3), 345–352. doi:10.1037/0894-4105.19.3.345
  • Wessel, I., Meeren, M., Peeters, F., Arntz, A., & Merckelbach, H. (2001). Correlates of autobiographical memory specificity: The role of depression, anxiety and childhood trauma. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39(4), 409–421. doi:10.1016/S0005-7967(00)00011-5
  • Williams, J. M., & Broadbent, K. (1986). Autobiographical memory in suicide attempters. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95(2), 144–149. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.95.2.144
  • Williams, J. M. G. (2006). Capture and rumination, functional avoidance, and executive control (CaRFAX): Three processes that underlie overgeneral memory. Cognition and Emotion, 20(3–4), 548–568. doi:10.1080/02699930500450465
  • Williams, J. M. G., Barnhofer, T., Crane, C., Herman, D., Raes, F., Watkins, E., & Dalgleish, T. (2007). Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder. Psychological Bulletin, 133(1), 122–148. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.133.1.122
  • Williams, J. M. G., Ellis, N. C., Tyers, C., Healy, H., Rose, G., & Macleod, A. K. (1996). The specificity of autobiographical memory and imageability of the future. Memory & Cognition, 24(1), 116–125. doi:10.3758/BF03197278
  • Yanes, P. K., Roberts, J. E., & Carlos, E. L. (2008). Does overgeneral autobiographical memory result from poor memory for task instructions? Memory, 16(7), 669–677. doi:10.1080/09658210802135351
  • Zajonc, R. B. (1980). Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences. American Psychologist, 35(2), 151. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.35.2.151

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.