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2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Retrieval of Earliest Recollections: How Early Your Earliest Memory Is Related to How You Retrieve It

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Cognitive Psychology

  • Berivan Ece
  • Nilufer Goktas
    Koç University

Abstract

We explored the link between retrieval processes and the age from which adults can remember their earliest memories. Overall, we concluded that earliest recollections may display variation in their dating depending on the retrieval type (direct vs. generative) in addition to the individual differences in general autobiographical recollection.

Memory