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Ninety-eight undergraduates were given a list of 20 common English nouns and told to inspect each word until a specific episodic memory associated with it came to mind, and to write a few words to identify that memory. After finishing the list, they were asked to go back and to date the episodic memories as accurately as they could. The frequency of memories as a function of their age was found to be log log linear, with the frequency inversely related to the age of memory.
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This work is from the Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, Program Number 1620-01.
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Crovitz, H.F., Schiffman, H. Frequency of episodic memories as a function of their age. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 4, 517–518 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334277
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