A study of autobiographical memory system : effects of aging on the stability of remembering.

研究了自传体记忆、语义记忆和情节记忆之间的关系。考察了记忆的稳定性，发现随着年龄的增长，只有自传体记忆的稳定性增加；这些结果表明，自传体记忆是一个独立的记忆系统，既不同于语义记忆系统，也不同于情景记忆系统。对年轻人和老年人的研究表明，自传体记忆的一个重要特征是将过去的事件和现在的自己联系起来的意义形成过程。此外，还编制了津巴多时间观测量表的日文版，以考察自我、记忆和时间洞察力之间的关系。

The relationships between autobiographical memory, semantic memory, and episodic memory were studied. Stability of remembering was examned and it was found that as the participants got older only stability of autobiographical memory increased ; these results suggested that autobiographical memory is a separate meory system which is differentiated from both semantic and episodic memory systems. Researches with young and elder people suggested that one important feature of autobiographical memory is meaning-making process which connects past events and present self. In addition, Japanese version of Zimbardo Time Pserpective Inventory was developed to examine relationships between self, memory, and time perspective.