Karl Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante are making a huge success of it, but telling one’s own story in fiction is far from straightforward It should be so easy. Things happen to you. They seem like ...

In 2006, Parker, Cahill and McGaugh reported the first known case of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) in a research participant known as “AJ”. When provided with a date, AJ could specify ...

Just a hundred years ago, most people had – at most – a few photos of themselves and their family. What a difference to today, when we can easily capture every important and unimportant moment – from ...

Autobiographical memory refers to the recollection of personally experienced significant events that contribute to an individual's sense of self. There is consensus in the literature on the ...

Emotional highs and lows and questions of who we are are a natural part of adolescence. During this transformative period, young people go through profound psychological changes that affect how they ...

Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. But what does this mean for the way we remember our lives and how we talk about them? Researchers are trying to find ...