When examining the life span distribution of autobiographical memories (AMs), three phenomena are revealed. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The authors acknowledge Global Asia in the 21st Century (GA21) Platform at Monash University Malaysia for the open access publication funding support. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: Khadeeja Munawar was supported by a Monash University Malaysia Higher Degree by Research Scholarship. Received: MaAccepted: NovemPublished: December 11, 2018Ĭopyright: © 2018 Munawar et al. PLoS ONE 13(12):Įditor: Maria Semkovska, University of Limerick, IRELAND In explaining the bump, the narrative/identity account and cultural life script account received the most support.Ĭitation: Munawar K, Kuhn SK, Haque S (2018) Understanding the reminiscence bump: A systematic review. The findings illustrate differing temporal periods for the bump: approximately 10–30 years for memories for important events, approximately 5–30 years for memories that were induced by word cues, and 6–39 years for studies using life scripts. Three types of memories/life scripts were recalled: personal/autobiographical memory, memories for public events, and life script events. The two prevailing methods of memory activation implemented were the cuing method and important memories method. Four main themes were generated: methods of memory activation/instruction for life scripts, types of memory/life scripts recalled, location of the reminiscence bump, and theoretical accounts for the bump.
The researchers implemented a thematic analytic technique for data extraction. Sixty-eight quantitative studies, out of 523, met the inclusion criteria.
Keywords used included: reminiscence, bump, peak, surge, blip, reminiscence effect, and reminiscence component.
The researchers conducted searches in nine databases for studies published between the date of inception of each database and the year 2017. This systematic review (PROSPERO 2017:CRD42017076695) aimed to synthesize peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the reminiscence bump. One of the most consistently observed phenomena in autobiographical memory research is the reminiscence bump: a tendency for middle-aged and elderly people to access more personal memories from approximately 10–30 years of age.
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