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Autobiographical Memory

Robyn Fivush

Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2019

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Abstract

Our autobiographical memory contains memories of events that have occurred during the course of our lifetime. It can be divided into episodic and semantic memories. Our episodic memories help us recollect times, locations and people while semantic memories deal with general facts. Our knowledge base consists of information pertaining to ourselves including what we are, what we were and what we may become. We can divide this information into a trio of categories:

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