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Evidence for a metacognitive awareness of autobiographical memory organisation

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Models of autobiographical memory (AM) recall posit some form of control process, but the extent to which we can reflect on this form of retrieval is under-researched. Here we propose a method for measuring such metacognitive awareness in AM. Since the verification of personal facts is difficult, we based our design on AM organisation. AMs are proposed to be organised into a coherent life story, that is, a subjective chronology reflecting the goals of the individual over time. We investigated the metacognitive awareness of this coherence. Eighty-three participants generated AMs and made two judgements of order for pairs of memories and gave a confidence rating. We found that participants were indeed able to distinguish pairs of memories that were coherent with their life story chronology from pairs which were not. We also found a significant effect of response time and task difficulty on confidence, suggesting that judgement of order fluency was determinant for metacognitive evaluation. This suggests common properties between metacognitive abilities related to autobiographical memory and those related to other forms of memory.

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Psychologie
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hal-04283805 , version 1 (14-11-2023)

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Fabien Carreras, Chris J A Moulin. Evidence for a metacognitive awareness of autobiographical memory organisation. Scientific Reports, 2023, 13, pp.15624. ⟨10.1038/s41598-023-34389-0⟩. ⟨hal-04283805⟩
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