RESEARCH OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEW (AI) METHOD (HEALTHY MEMORY AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

• Authors: Szőllősi Ágnes , Kónya Anikó

Title variants

HU

Az önéletrajzi emlékezet vizsgálata: Önéletrajzi Interjú eljárás (Egészséges emlékezet és Alzheimer-kór)

• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Levine, Svoboda and his colleagues (2002) developed a semi-structured Autobiographical Interview method to research specific autobiographical memories, which can highlight event-specific contents in the narration of a memory. The goal of the recent study is the Hungarian adaptation of this technique. By the help of this method three healthy age groups have been compared: young (aged 20–27; N = 25), middle-aged (aged 45–55; N = 25) and elderly adults (aged 60–79; N = 16), respectively a group of clinical patients: Alzheimer’s patients in the early stage of the disease (aged 60–80; N = 16). It has been confirmed that in healthy people episodic richness of autobiographical events failed through the age. Furthermore in the early stage of Alzheimer’s disease episodic memory impaires much more, than in healthy adults of similar age.

Keywords

EN

Autobiographical Interview; episodic memory; memory recollection; age-dependent memory; Alzheimer’s disease

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 587-603
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szőllősi Ágnes

author

Kónya Anikó