reminiscence bump / pic de réminiscence
Synonyms: autobiographical memory bump, reminiscence bump effect
Synonymes : bosse de réminiscence, effet du pic de réminiscence, pic de la mémoire autobiographique
Group: Human, Psychology
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie
Definition: Increased number of autobiographical memories of events experienced between the ages of 10 and 30 years, usually observed in people over the age of 40.
Définition : Augmentation du nombre de souvenirs autobiographiques pour les évènements vécus entre l'âge de 10 et 30 ans, observée généralement chez les personnes âgées de plus de 40 ans.
Broader term: memory phenomenon
Terme générique : phénomène de la mémoire
Narrower terms: cascading reminiscence bump, relocation bump
Termes spécifiques : pic de reminiscence en cascade, pic de relocalisation
Related terms: autobiographical memory, forgetting curve, semantic memory, life script, anti-reminiscence bump ​
Termes associés : mémoire autobiographique, courbe d’oubli, mémoire sémantique, scénario de vie, pic d'antiréminiscence
Has study methods: cue-word method, autobiographical fluency task, important memories method
Editorial note: The reminiscence bump has also been observed when remembering public events, films, books and music.
Note éditoriale : Le pic de réminiscence a été observé pour d’autres types de souvenirs que les souvenirs autobiographiques, par exemple, dans la mémoire d’évènements publics, de films, de livres ou de musique.
Selected bibliography: Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Steger, D., Wilhelm, O., & Schroeders, U. (in press). Public events knowledge in an age-heterogeneous sample: Reminiscence bump or bummer? Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000786 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Janssen, S. M. J. (2019). Introduction to the cognitive abilities account for the reminiscence bump in the temporal distribution of autobiographical memory. Psychological Reports, 003329411984322. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294119843221 [Study type: literature review / Access: free], Koppel, J., & Berntsen, D. (2015). The peaks of life: The differential temporal locations of the reminiscence bump across disparate cueing methods. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(1), 66–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.11.004 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Koppel, J., & Rubin, D. C. (2016). Recent advances in understanding the reminiscence bump: The importance of cues in guiding recall from autobiographical memory. Current directions in psychological science, 25(2), 135–140. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416631955 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Munawar, K., Kuhn, S. K., & Haque, S. (2018). Understanding the reminiscence bump: A systematic review. PLOS ONE, 13(12), e0208595. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208595 [Study type: literature review / Access: open], Rubin, D. C., Wetzler, S. E., & Nebes, R. D. (1986). Autobiographical memory across the adult lifespan. In D. C. Rubin (Ed.), Autobiographical memory (pp. 202-221). Cambridge University Press. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Wolf, T., & Zimprich, D. (2020). What characterizes the reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory? New answers to an old question. Memory & Cognition, 48(4), 607–622. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00994-6 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
Dataset citations: Islam, Md. (2020): Valence and the reminiscence bump for private and public memories_dataset. Monash University. Dataset. doi:10.26180/13095281.v3, Jakubowski, K. et al. (2020). A cross-sectional study of reminiscence bumps for music-related memories in adulthood [Data set]. SAGE Journals. doi:10.25384/SAGE.13139106, Liao, H.-W. (2020, June 8). Reminiscence bump predicts life satisfaction. https://osf.io/69kzn/