The hippocampus has been implicated in episodic and
autobiographical memory formation in animal models (Devito and Eichenbaum, 2011; Ergorul and Eichenbaum, 2004; Morris et al., 1982; Squire, 1992) and humans (Squire and Zola - Morgan, 1991; Tulving, 2002).
Instead of relying on interviews with adults, as previous studies of childhood amnesia have done, the Emory researchers wanted to document early
autobiographical memory formation, as well as the age of forgetting these memories.
Not exact matches
In a series of tests to determine how false information can manipulate
memory formation, the researchers discovered that subjects with highly superior
autobiographical memory logged scores similar to those of a control group of subjects with average
memory.