An investigation of the interaction between autobiographical memory and narrative practices

•  Autobiographical memories are at the interface of memory and narrative capacities, however in the memory literature there is a debate surrounding how much these capacities contribute to autobiographical and general narrative practices

•  Our goal is to investigate memory and narrative in a healthy population and investigate individual differences across elicitation type (past vs future memories) and narrative production form (oral vs typed)

•  By understanding how the content of narratives can be affected by elicitation type and production we can make better comparisons across datasets in the memory literature.

•  Lastly, by exploring individual differences in narrative practices, we can further explore differences in memory and language variables as a result of differences in autobiographical narration