Thesis Fabien CARRERAS

This project explores retrieval of the life story (autobiographical memory). It focusses on a key cognitive process: metacognition, so far never measured in autobiographical memory retrieval. We ask whether people can accurately judge the veracity of what they retrieve from their life story. We centre on one simple, elegant task which examines the ability to recall the order in which two events occurred, comparing how well people perform on this task with how well they think they have performed on this task. We will apply this method to older adults, with the aim of ultimately increasing wellbeing in our aging society; and to people with depression, who are known to have difficulties with retrieving memories from their life stories

Encadrants :
Céline SOUCHAY celine.souchayuniv-grenoble-alpes.fr (celine[dot]souchay[at]univ-grenoble-alpes[dot]fr)
Andrea TALES a.talesswansea.ac.uk (a[dot]tales[at]swansea[dot]ac[dot]uk) (Codirection)
Claire BARNES c.m.barnesswansea.ac.uk (c[dot]m[dot]barnes[at]swansea[dot]ac[dot]uk) (Co-encadrant)

Keywords : Autobiographical Memory,Metacognition,Depression,Aging,