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dc.contributor.authorAkhtar, Shazia*
dc.contributor.authorJustice, L.V.*
dc.contributor.authorMorrison, Catriona M.*
dc.contributor.authorConway, M.A.*
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-22T11:15:54Z
dc.date.available2018-11-22T11:15:54Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationAkhtar S, Justice LV, Morrison, CM et al (2018) Fictional first memories. Psychological Science. 29(10): 1612-1619.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/16664
dc.descriptionYesen_US
dc.description.abstractIn a large-scale survey, 6,641 respondents provided descriptions of their first memory and their age when they encoded that memory, and they completed various memory judgments and ratings. In good agreement with many other studies, where mean age at encoding of earliest memories is usually found to fall somewhere in the first half of the 3rd year of life, the mean age at encoding here was 3.2 years. The established view is that the distribution around mean age at encoding is truncated, with very few or no memories dating to the preverbal period, that is, below about 2 years of age. However, we found that 2,487 first memories (nearly 40% of the entire sample) dated to an age at encoding of 2 years and younger, with 893 dating to 1 year and younger. We discuss how such improbable, fictional first memories could have arisen and contrast them with more probable first memories, those with an age at encoding of 3 years and older.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectFirst memoriesen_US
dc.subjectAge at encodingen_US
dc.subjectAge at retrievalen_US
dc.subjectChildhood amnesiaen_US
dc.subjectFictional memoriesen_US
dc.subjectNarrative memoriesen_US
dc.subjectOpen dataen_US
dc.titleFictional first memoriesen_US
dc.status.refereedYesen_US
dc.date.Accepted2018-04-22
dc.date.application2018-07-17
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.type.versionAccepted manuscripten_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177%2F0956797618778831
refterms.dateFOA2018-11-26T13:50:11Z


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