Autobiographical Interview Bibliography

The Autobiographical Interview has been used in over 375 studies. This bibliography lists articles that have used the Autobiographical Interview in a variety of experimental, clinical, and neuroimaging applications. 
​​Table of Contents​
Aging
Adult Populations
Lesion Cases
Neurodegeneration
Psychiatric Conditions
Developmental
This bibliography is updated manually based on citation alerts to the original Autobiographical Interview study (Levine et al., 2002).  
Aging 
Author Study Title  Methodology
Aging
Li-Chay-Chung (preprint) Integrity of autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking in older adults varies with cognitive functioning. Standard
Melega & Renoult (preprint) Retrieval mode switching affects autobiographical memory accuracy and elaboration in ageing Adapted: Scoring scheme modified
Hong et al. (2025) The influence of event similarity on the detailed recall of autobiographical memories Standard
Chang et al. (2025) A Dual-Modal Fusion Framework for Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Autobiographical Memory Standard
Meade et al. (2024) Unique events improve episodic richness, enhance mood, and alter the perception of time during isolation Adapted: altered instructions on retrieval to focus on audio-visual cues.
Gamoran et al. (2024) Thinking in 3D: A multidimensional mapping of the effects of distance on abstraction Standard
Hernandez et al. (2024) Retrieving autobiographical memories in autobiographical contexts: Are age-related differences in narrated episodic specificity present outside of the laboratory? Standard
Chang et al. (2024) Spatial context scaffolds long-term episodic richness of weak real-world autobiographical memories Standard
Melega et al. (2024) Evoking Episodic and Semantic Details with Instructional Manipulation: The Semantic Autobiographical Interview Adapted: Semantic Autobiographical Interview. Scoring scheme modified.
Sheldon et al. (2023) Differences in the content and coherence of autobiographical memories between younger and older adults: Insights from text analysis Standard
Simpson et al. (2023) Effects of healthy and neuropathological aging on autobiographical memory: A meta-analysis of studies using the Autobiographical Interview Standard
Bloom et al. (2023) Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults Standard
Lockrow et al. (2023) Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview Standard
Blumenthal et al. (2022) How threat shapes attention and memory in the Himba, a remote people of Namibia Standard
Setton et al. (2022) Temporal pole volume is associated with episodic autobiographical memory in healthy older adults Standard
Setton et al. (2022) Hippocampus and temporal pole functional connectivity is associated with age and individual differences in autobiographical memory Standard
Setton et al. (2022) Troubled past: A critical psychometric assessment of the self-report Survey of Autobiographical Memory (SAM). Standard
Martin et al. (2022) A smartphone intervention that enhances real-world memory and promotes differentiation of hippocampal activity in older adults Adapted: discounted in-cue details
Matijevic et al. (2022) Individual differences in the relationship between episodic detail generation and resting state functional connectivity vary with age Adapted: Memel et al. (2020)
Folville et al. (2022) I remember it like it was yesterday: Age-related differences in the subjective experience of remembering Theoretic review
Badham et al. (2022) An older adult advantage in autobiographical recall Standard
Davis et al. (2021) Looking the same, but remembering differently: Preserved eye-movement synchrony with age during movie watching. Standard
Maskit et al. (2021) Referential Activity as a Measure of Episodic Memory. Standard
Turnbull et al. (2021) Age-related changes in ongoing thought relate to external context and individual cognition Adapted: shown a random selection of six pictures as recall cues (Madore, Gaesser, & Schacter, 2014); Future Events AI scoring manual
Strikwerda-Brown et al. (2021) What are your thoughts? Exploring age-related changes in episodic and semantic autobiographical content on an open-ended retrieval task Adapted: new external details (NExt) taxonomy (Strikwerda-Brown et al. (2019))
Mair, poirier, & Conway (2021) Age effects in autobiographical memory depend on the measure Standard
Maskit, Bucci, & Fishman (2021) Referential activity as a measure of episodic memory Standard: but interviews originally
collected by Addis et al. (2008) who adapted for past and future events.
Nelson, Murphy, & Bucci (2021) Narrativity and referential activity predict episodic memory strength in autobiographical memories Standard
Devitt & Schacter (2020) Looking on the Bright Side: Aging and the Impact of Emotional Future Simulation on Subsequent Memory Adapted: Future events
Frankenberg et al. (2020) Autobiographical memory in healthy aging: A decade-long longitudinal study Adapted: Used adapted version of E-AGI based on standard AI
Diamond & Levine (2020) Linking Detail to Temporal Structure in Naturalistic-Event Recall Standard
Diamond, Armson & Levine (2020) The truth is out there: Accuracy in recall of verifiable real-world events Standard
Acevedo-Molina et al. (2020) Emotion matters: The influence of valence on episodic future thinking in young and older adults Standard
Wank, Andrews-Hanna, & Grilli (2020) Searching for the past: Exploring the dynamics of direct and generative autobiographical memory reconstruction among young and cognitively normal older adults Standard
Wank et al. (2020) Eavesdropping on Autobiographical Memory: A Naturalistic Observation Study of Older Adults’ Memory Sharing in Daily Conversations Adapted: excludes external, repetition and other details
Lempert et al. (2020) Links between autobiographical memory richness and temporal discounting in older adults Standard
Acevedo-Molina, Matijevic, & Grilli (2020) Beyond episodic remembering: elaborative retrieval of lifetime periods in young and older adults Adapted: different categorisation of external details
Peters & Sheldon (2020) Interindividual Differences in Cognitive Functioning Are Associated with Autobiographical Memory Retrieval Specificity in Older Adults
 Adapted: Cued recall
Diamond, Abdi & Levine (2020) Different patterns of recollection for matched real-world and laboratory-based episodes in younger and older adults Standard
Jing, Madore, & Schacter (2019) Not to worry: Episodic retrieval impacts emotion regulation in older adults Standard and Adapted: internal details further segregated by concreteness
Carson et al. (2019) Self-referential processing improves memory for narrative information in healthy aging and amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Adapted: Used AI to validate experimental stimuli
Memel et al. (2019) The Relationship Between Episodic Detail Generation and Anterotemporal, Posteromedial, and Hippocampal White Matter Tracts Adapted: event details categorized as action/conversation vs. temporal sequencing
Grysman et al. (2019) Long-married couples recall their wedding day: the influence of collaboration and gender on autobiographical memory recall Adapted: New vs. Old details; individual recall and collaborative recall
Peters et al. (2019) Episodic memory contributions to autobiographical memory and open-ended problem-solving specificity in younger and older adults Adapted: Word cues
Cao et al. (2018) Remembering the past and imagining the future: attachment effects on production of episodic details in close relationships Adapted: Past and future events
Grilli et al. (2018) Evidence for Reduced Autobiographical Memory Episodic Specificity in Cognitively Normal Middle-Aged and Older Individuals at Increased Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia Adapted: Six periods in lifespan
Spreng et al. (2018) Semanticized autobiographical memory and the default - executive coupling hypothesis of aging Standard
Gaesser et al. (2017)  Effects of aging on the relation between episodic simulation and prosocial intentions Adapted: Future events
Sasse, Peters, Brassen (2017) Cognitive control modulates effects of episodic simulation on delay discounting in aging Adapted: Future events
Lapp & Spaniol (2017) Impact of age-relevant goals on future thinking in younger and older adults Adapted: Future events
Robin & Moscovitch (2017) Familiar real-world spatial cues provide memory benefits in older and younger adults Standard
Devitt, Addis, & Schacter (2017) Episodic and semantic content of memory and imagination: A multilevel analysis Meta Analysis - Adapted: Past and Future Events
De Brigard et al. (2017) Exploring the experience of episodic past, future, and counterfactual thinking in younger and older adults: A study of a Colombian sample Adapted : Past event, future event and counterfactual thinking
Benoit, Davies & Anderson (2016) Reducing future fears by suppressing the brain mechanisms underlying episodic simulation Adapted: Future events
Carson et al. (2016) Older adults show a self-reference effect for narrative information Adapted: Used AI to validate experimental stimuli
Devitt, Tippett et al. (2016) Autobiographical memory conjunction errors in younger and older adults: Evidence for a role of inhibitory ability Adapted: Past and Future Events
Devitt, Monk-Fromont et al. (2016) Factors that influence the generation of autobiographical memory conjunction errors Adapted: Past and Future Events
De Brigard et al. (2016) Characterizing the subjective experience of episodic past, future, and counterfactual thinking in healthy younger and older adults Adapted : Past event, future event and counterfactual thinking
Zavagnin et al. (2016) Episodic future thinking: the role of working memory and inhibition on age-related differences Adapted: Past and Future events
Terret et al. (2016) The relationship between prospective memory and episodic future thinking in younger and older adulthood Adapted: Future events
Sasse et al. (2015) Effects of prospective thinking on intertemporal choice: The role of familiarity Adapted: Future events
Kwan et al. (2015) Cueing the personal future to reduce discounting in intertemporal choice: Is episodic prospection necessary? Adapted: Future events
Aizpurua, Koutstaal (2015)  A matter of focus: Detailed memory in the intentional autobiographical recall of older and younger adults Adapted: fewer, time-matched events
Madore et al. (2014) Constructive episodic simulation: dissociable effects of a specificity induction on remembering, imagining, and describing in young and older adults Adapted: memory or imagined future experience from picture cue
Madore & Schacter (2014) An episodic specificity induction enhances means-end problem solving in young and older adults Adapted: memory or imagined future experience from picture cue
Ford, Rubin, Giovanello (2014)  Effects of task instruction on autobiographical memory specificity in young and older adults Adapted: Musical clip cued retrieval
Vandermorris et al. (2013)  Differential contributions of executive and episodic memory functions to problem solving in younger and older adults Abbreviated 
Martinelli et al. (2013)  Age-related changes in the functional network underlying specific and general autobiographical memory retrieval: A pivotal role for the anterior cingulate cortex Adapted: In-scanner recall
Hohman, Peynircioğlu, Beason-Held (2013)  Flexibility of event boundaries in autobiographical memory Standard 
De Beni et al. (2013)  Remembering the past and imagining the future: age-related differences between young, young-old and old-old Adapted: Past and future events
Cole, Morrison, Conway (2013)  Episodic future thinking: Linking neuropsychological performance with episodic detail in young and old adults Adapted: Future events
Rendell et al. (2012) Older adults have greater difficulty imagining future rather than atemporal experiences Adapted: Future events
St Jacques, Rubin, Cabeza (2012)  Age-related effects on the neural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval Adapted: In-scanner recall
Schryer et al. (2012)  Emotional expressivity in older and younger adults' descriptions of personal memories Standard: Scored for word use
Gaesser et al. (2011)  Characterizing age-related changes in remembering the past and imagining the future Adapted: Past event, future event and picture description
Addis et al. (2010)  Episodic simulation of past and future events in older adults: Evidence from an experimental recombination task Adapted: Imagined past and future events
Baron & Bluck (2009)  Autobiographical memory sharing in everyday life: Characteristics of a good story Adapted : Fictional stories
Addis, Wong & Schacter (2008)  Age-related changes in the episodic simulation of future events Adapted: Past and future events
St Jacques, Levine (2007)  Ageing and autobiographical memory for emotional and neutral events Standard   
Levine et al. (2002) Aging and autobiographical memory: dissociating episodic from semantic retrieval. Standard 
Adult Populations 
Author Study Title  Methodology
Adult Populations
Bernardis et al. (2025) Differential eye movements and greater pupil size during mental scene construction in autobiographical recall Standard
Valiente et al. (2025) Personal likelihood and event familiarity influence the simulation of future events Standard
Wynn & Schacter (2024) Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation Standard
Nadel & Simon (2024) Perceived memory credibility: The role of details Standard
Knoff et al. (2024) Shape of the past: Revealing detail arcs while narrating memories of autobiographical life events across the lifespan Standard
van Genugten & Schacter (2024) Automated scoring of the autobiographical interview with natural language processing Standard and Adapted:  ESI studies of Madore et al. (2014) and Jing et al. (2016)
Yilmaz & Karadere (2024) Effectiveness and feasibility of the self-administered and repeated episodic future thinking exercises in smoking cessation Standard
Matijevic et al. (2024) Semantic details in autobiographical memory narratives increase with age among younger adults Standard
Monzel et al. (2024) Hippocampal-occipital connectivity reflects autobiographical memory deficits in aphantasia Standard
Fenerci et al. (2024) Remembering what we imagine: the role of event schemas in shaping how imagined autobiographical events are recalled Standard
Guefuryan et al. (2024) Lifetime familiarity cue effects for autobiographical memory Standard
Reagh & Ranganath (2023) Flexible reuse of cortico-hippocampal representations during encoding and recall of naturalistic events Adapted: scored by number of "verifiable details" within specific story events (Cohn-Sheehy et al., 2020) and segmented into meaningful detail units
Wardell et al. (2023) Fade in, fade out: Do shifts in visual perspective predict the consistency of real-world memories? Standard
Rossi-Arnaud et al. (2023) Autobiographical memory in contact tracing: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic Standard
Clark et al. (2023) Posterior hippocampal CA2/3 volume is associated with autobiographical memory recall ability in lower performing individuals Standard
Coughlan et al. (2023) Transcranial magnetic stimulation to the angular gyrus modulates the temporal dynamics of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex Adapted: Future 
Fozzard-Costigan et al. (2023) Associations between Episodic Detail in Young Adults’ Memory Narratives and Depressive Symptoms: Event Type Matters Adapted: Future Events
Pearson et al. (2023) Differences in autobiographical memories reported using text and voice during everyday life Standard
Aydin et al. (2023) The role of gestures in autobiographical memory Standard
Conti et al. (2023) Lifelong impairment in episodic re-experiencing: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging examination of a new case of Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory Standard
Branzi & Lambon Ralph (2022) The Role of the Posterior Medial Network in Language Comprehension: Dissociating Construction of Episodic versus Semantic Representations Standard
Gibson et al. (2022) Investigating the role of future thinking in a case of highly superior autobiographical memory Standard and Adapted: Future
Audrain et al. (2022) A role for the anterior hippocampus in autobiographical memory construction regardless of temporal distance Adapted: Separates internal details specific to the event details from other types of external details
Barnett et al. (2022) Hippocampal-cortical interactions during event boundaries support retention of complex narrative events Standard
Dev et al. (2022) Negative emotion enhances memory for the sequential unfolding of a naturalistic experience Standard
Elliott et al. (2022) Deficits in episodic future thinking following acute alcohol consumption Adapted: Future Events
Fenerci & Sheldon (2022) The role of episodic memory in imagining autobiographical events: the influence of event expectancy and context familiarity Standard
Gilmore et al. (2022) A comparison of single-and multi-echo processing of functional MRI data during overt autobiographical recall Adapted as per Gilmore et al. (2021): Separates “Internal” (episodic) details specific to the event details from other types of “External” details.
Gower et al. (2022) Positive biases and psychological functioning during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic Standard
Ryan et al. (2022) Episodic simulation of helping behavior in younger and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic Standard
Hallford et al. (2022) Brief inductions in episodic past or future thinking: effects on episodic detail and problem-solving Standard
King et al. (2022) The influence of shifting perspective on episodic and semantic details during autobiographical memory recall Standard
Rioux et al. (2022) Memory for forgetting in adults with persistent symptoms following concussion Standard
Matsumoto et al. (2022) Development of a Japanese version of the Autobiographical Recollection Test: convergent validity with self-reported scales and memory details Standard
Thakral et al. (2022) Constructive episodic retrieval processes underlying memory distortion contribute to creative thinking and everyday problem solving Adapted: AI scoring method applied to Means-End Problem Solving (MEPS) task
van Genugten et al. (2022) Does episodic retrieval contribute to creative writing? an exploratory study Adapted: ESI studies procedure
Belfi et al. (2022) Investigating the role of involuntary retrieval in music-evoked autobiographical memories Standard
Wynn et al. (2022) Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation Adapted: for imagined scenarios 
Clark et al. (2022) Conduction velocity along a key white matter tract is associated with autobiographical memory recall ability Standard
Dawes et al. (2022) Memories with a blind mind: Remembering the past and imagining the future with aphantasia Adapted: as per Addis et al. (2008)
Reisman et al. (2021) Influence of naturalistic, emotional context and intolerance of uncertainty on arousal-mediated biases in episodic memory Standard
Elliott et al. (2021) Prospective memory deficits following acute alcohol consumption Adapted: as per Addis et al. (2008)
Milton et al. (2021) Behavioral and neural signatures of visual imagery vividness extremes: Aphantasia versus hyperphantasia Standard
Thakral et al. (2021) Divergent thinking and constructing future events: dissociating old from new ideas Adapted: Future Events
Wardell et al. (2021) How emotion influences the details recalled in autobiographical memory Adapted: probed recent events
Cohn-Sheehy et al. (2021) Narratives bridge the divide between distant events in episodic memory Adapted: data scored by segmenting recall into meaningful detail units and determining how many of these details could be verified within events 
Cohn-Sheehy et al. (2021) The hippocampus constructs narrative memories across distant events Adapted: scored by number of "verifiable details" within specific story events (Cohn-Sheehy et al., 2020)
Montijn, Gerritsen & Engelhard (2021) Forgetting the Future: Emotion Improves Memory for Imagined Future Events in Healthy Individuals but Not Individuals With Anxiety Adapted: Past and Future Events
Brandman, Malach & Simony (2021) The surprising role of the default mode network in naturalistic perception Adapted: Used AI probing protocol
Clark et al. (2021) The relationship between hippocampal-dependent task performance and hippocampal grey matter myelination and iron content Standard
Armson et al. (2021) Vividness of recollection is supported by eye movements in individuals with high, but not low trait autobiographical memory Standard
Gilmore et al. (2021) Evidence supporting a time-limited hippocampal role in retrieving autobiographical memories Adapted: scoring system accommodated picture descirptions
Gilmore et al. (2021) Dynamic content reactivation supports naturalistic autobiographical recall in humans Adapted: "event details" category segregated into more specific detail types to accommodate picture descriptions
Peters & Sheldon (2021) Common and distinct neural systems support the generation retreival phase of autobiographical memory and personal problem solving Adapted : memory cues for stimuli
Clark, Monk, & Maguire (2020) Characterising strategy use during the performance of hippocampal-dependent tasks Standard
Wardell et al. (2020) Semi-automated transcription and scoring of autobiographical memory narratives Standard
Thakral et al. (2020) Modulation of hippocampal brain networks produces changes in episodic simulation and divergent thinking Adapted: Future Event
Lalla, Agostino & Sheldon (2020) The link between detail generation and eye movements when encoding and retrieving complex images Adapted: picutre description
Hallford et al. (2020) Electroconvulsive therapy related autobiographical amnesia: a review and case report Standard
Belfi, Bai & Stroud (2020) Comparing Methods for Analyzing Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories Adapted: scored music-evoked autobiograhical memories
Williams et al. (2020) The role of the pre-commissural fornix in episodic autobiographical memory and simulation Adapted: Past and future events
Cassol et al. (2020) Near-Death Experience Memories Include More Episodic Components Than Flashbulb Memories Standard
Barry, Clark, & Maguire (2020) The relationship between hippocampal subfield volumes and autobiographical memory persistence Standard
Clark et al. (2020) Does hippocampal volume explain performance differences on hippocampal-dependant tasks? Adapted: vividness rating
Roberts, Grady, & Addis (2020) Creative, internally-directed cognition is associated with reduced BOLD variability Adapted: Future events
Szypula, Ahern, & Cheke (2020) The role of memory ability, depth and mode of recall in the impact of memory on later consumption Standard
Ernst, Scoboria & D'Argembeau (2019) On the role of autobiographical knowledge in shaping belief in the future occurrence of imagined events Adapted: Future events
Sheldon, Cool & El-Asmar (2019) The processes involved in mentally constructing event- and scene-based autobiographical representations Adapted: Event constructon
Madore et al. (2019) Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Retrieval Support Divergent Creative Thinking Adapted: Video clip
Lau-Zhu, Henson & Holmes (2019) Intrusive memories and voluntary memory of a trauma film: Differential effects of a cognitive interference task after encoding Adapted: Scored memory of a trauma film
Loprinzi et al. (2019) Exercise and episodic specificity induction on episodic memory function Adapted:Past event and event description
Miloyan, McFarlane, & Vásquez-Echeverría (2019) The adapted Autobiographical interview: A systematic review and proposal for conduct and reporting Adapted: review
Grilli et al. (2019) Evidence that an episodic mode of thinking facilitates encoding of perceptually rich memories for naturalistic events relative to a gist-based mode of thinking standard AI: used for one memory and film clip
Thakral, Madore, & Schacter (2019) The core episodic simulation network dissociates as a function of subjective experience and objective content Adapted: Future events
Puig, Özbek, & Szpunar (2019) A negativity bias in detail generation during event simulation Adapted: external details extraneous to central event
Simpson & Sheldon (2019) Testing the impact of emotional mood and cue characteristics on detailed autobiographical memory retrieval Adapted: musical mood induction and word cues
Sheldon et al. (2019) Constructing autobiographical events within a spatial or temporal context: a comparison of two targeted episodic induction techniques Adapted: Past and Future Events
Clark et al. (2019) Identifying the cognitive processes underpinning hippocampal-dependent tasks Standard
Selarka et al. (2019) Association between self-reported and performance-based navigational ability using internet-based remote spatial memory assessment Adapted: Internet administration
Ernst, Philippe & D'Argembeau (2018) Wanting or having to: The role of goal self-concordance in episodic future thinking Adapted: Future events
Ford et al. (2018) Heroic memory: Remembering the details of others' heroism in the aftermath of a traumatic public event can foster our own prosocial response Adapted: Single promt used to cue multiple events
Barry et al. (2018) Nonmonotonic recruitment of ventromedial prefrontal cortex during remote memory recall Standard
Moustafa et al. (2018) Not all drugs are created equal: impaired future thinking in opiate, but not alcohol, users Adapted: Past and future events
Mercuri et al. (2018) Episodic foresight deficits in regular, but not recreational, cannabis users Adapted: Past and future events
Bonnici et al. (2018) Specifying a causal role for angular gyrus in autobiographical memory Adapted
Palombo et al. (2018) Episodic autobiographical memory is associated with variation in the size of hippocampal subregions Adapted: Recent and remote events
Madore, Jing, & Schacter (2018) Selective effects of specificity inductions on episodic details: evidence for an event construction account Adapted: Past event, future event and picture description
Sheldon, Chu, Nitschke, Pruessner, & Bartz (2018) The dynamic interplay between acute psychosocial stress, emotion and autobiographical memory Adapted: Word cues
Poerio et al. (2017) The role of the default mode network in component processes underlying the wandering mind Adapted: memory or imagined future experience from picture cue
Armson, Abdi  & Levine (2017) Bridging naturalistic and laboratory assessment of memory: the Baycrest mask fit test Standard
Jing, Madore, & Schacter (2017) Preparing for what might happen: An episodic specificity induction impacts the generation of alternative future events Adapted: Generated alternative events
Aydin (2017) The differential contributions of visual imagery constructs on autobiographical thinking Adapted: No probe
Hu et al. (2017) A Reduction in Delay Discounting by Using Episodic Future Imagination and the Association with Episodic Memory Capacity Adapted: Past and Future Events
Sheldon & El-Asmar (2017)  The cognitive tools that support mentally constructing event and scene representations Adapted: Scenario cues
Puig & Szpunar (2017) The devil is in the details: Comparisons of episodic simulations of positive and negative future events. Adapted: Transcriptions used to identify central event
Peters et al. (2017) Quantitative text feature analysis of autobiographical interview data: prediction of episodic details, semantic details and temporal discounting Adapted: predictive models
Grysman (2017) Gender Differences in Episodic Encoding of Autobiographical Memory Standard
Hodgetts et al. (2017) Distinct contributions of the fornix and inferior longitudinal fasciculus to episodic and semantic autobiographical memory Adapted: Averaged scores
Thakral et al. (2017) A role for the left angular gyrus in episodic simulation and memory Adapted: Past and future events
Sheldon & Chu (2017) What versus where: Investigating how autobiographical memory retrieval differs when accessed with thematic versus spatial information Adapted: Spatial and event theme cues
Madore et al. (2016) Episodic specificity induction impacts activity in a core brain network during construction of imagined future experiences Adapted: Future events
Sekeres et al. (2016) Recovering and preventing loss of detailed memory: Differential rates of forgetting for detail types in episodic memory Standard
Mercuri et al. (2016) Deconstructing the nature of episodic foresight deficits associated with chronic opiate use Adapted: Future events
Addis et al. (2016) Divergent thinking and constructing episodic simulations Adapted:  imagine-future, imagine-past and recall-past conditions
Jing et al. (2016) Worrying about the future: An episodic specificity induction impacts problem solving, reappraisal, and well-being Adapted: Simulation tasks
Madore & Schacter (2016) Remembering the past and imagining the future: Selective effects of an episodic specificity induction on detail generation Adapted: memory, imagination, word comparison responses
LePort, Stark, McGaugh, & Stark (2015) Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory: Quality and Quantity of Retention Over Time  Standard
Mercuri et al. (2015) Episodic foresight deficits in long-term opiate users Adapted: Past and future events
Palombo et al. (2015) Severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) in healthy adults: A new mnemonic syndrome Standard
Belfi, Karlan, Tranel (2015) Music evokes vivid autobiographical memories Adapted: Event evoked through music or famous faces
Robin & Moscovitch (2014) The effects of spatial contextual familiarity on remembered scenes, episodic memories, and imagined future events Adapted: Scene memory, Past and Future events
Barnier et al. (2014)  Reaping what they sow: Benefits of remembering together in intimate couples Adapted: collaborative recollection or alone
de Vito et al. (2014)  Eye movements disrupt episodic future thinking Adapted: Past and future events
Craig, Della Sala, & Dewar (2014)  Autobiographical thinking interferes with episodic memory consolidation Adapted: Past and future events
Palombo et al. (2013) The survey of autobiographical memory (SAM): A novel measure of trait mnemonics in everyday life Adapted 
Fuentes, Desrocher (2013)  The effects of gender on the retrieval of episodic and semantic components of autobiographical memory Standard 
Ally, Hussey, Donahue (2013) A case of hyperthymesia: rethinking the role of the amygdala in autobiographical memory Standard 
Anderson (2012) Imagining novel futures: the roles of event plausibility and familiarity Adapted: Future event
Fuentes & , Desrocher (2012)  Autobiographical Memory in Emerging Adulthood: Relationship with Self-Concept Clarity Standard 
Lomas et al. (2012) Electroconvulsive therapy related autobiographical amnesia: a review and case report Standard
Todd et al. (2012)  Psychophysical and neural evidence for emotion-enhanced perceptual vividness Adapted: Emotional image description
Rabin, Rosenbaum (2012)  Familiarity modulates the functional relationship between theory of mind and autobiographical memory Adapted: In-scanner recall
de Vito, Gamboz, Brandimonte (2012)  What differentiates episodic future thinking from complex scene imagery? Adapted: Future events in familiar/unfamiliar or relevant/non-relevant settings
De Brigard, Giovanello (2012)  Influence of outcome valence in the subjective experience of episodic past, future, and counterfactual thinking Adapted: Past event, future event and counterfactual thinking
Cole et al. (2012)  Mental time travel: effects of trial duration on episodic and semantic content Adapted: Past and future events
Wang et al. (2011)  Traveling backwards and forwards in time: culture and gender in the episodic specificity of past and future events Adapted: Past and future events
Hirshhorn, Newman, Moscovitch (2011)  Detailed descriptions of routes traveled, but not map-like knowledge, correlates with tests of hippocampal function in older adults Adapted: Route descriptions
Campbell et al. (2011)  Remembering all that and then some: recollection of autobiographical memories after a 1-year delay Adapted: Repeated and rehearsed events
Rabin et al. (2010)  Common and unique neural correlates of autobiographical memory and theory of mind Adapted: In-scanner recall  
Aizpurua, Koutstaal (2010)  Autobiographical memory and flexible remembering: Gender differences Standard 
Rudoy, Weintraub, Paller (2009)  Recall of remote episodic memories can appear deficient because of a gist-based retrieval orientation Adapted: Gist and detail manipulation
Nadel, Campbell, Ryan (2007) Autobiographical memory retrieval and hippocampal activation as a function of repetition and the passage of time Standard 
Gilboa et al. (2004) Remembering our past: functional neuroanatomy of recollection of recent and very remote personal events Standard
​Lesion Cases 
Author Study Title  Methodology
Lesion Cases
Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL)
Matorina et al. (2023) Sleep differentially and profoundly impairs recall memory in a patient with fornix damage Standard
Wank et al. (2022) Autobiographical memory unknown: Pervasive autobiographical memory loss encompassing personality trait knowledge in an individual with medial temporal lobe amnesia Adapted: Divided personal semantic details into experience-near and experience-far facts as per Acevedo-Molina et al. 2020
Ciaramelli et al. (2021) The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in reward valuation and future thinking during intertemporal choice Standard
Spanò et al. (2020) Dreaming With Hippocampal Damage Standard 
Miller et al. (2020) Human hippocampal CA3 damage disrupts both recent and remote episodic memories Standard
Sawczack et al. (2019) Episodic simulation and empathy in older adults and patients with unilateral medial temporal lobe excisions Adapted: Future events
Robin et al. (2019) Remote spatial and autobiographical memory in cases of episodic amnesia and topographical disorientation Standard
McCormick, Rosenthal, Miller, & Maguire (2018) Mind-Wandering in People with Hippocampal Damage Standard 
McCormick, Rosenthal, Miller, & Maguire (2017) Deciding what is possible and impossible following hippocampal damage in humans Standard
Hilverman, Cook, & Duff (2017) The influence of the hippocampus and declarative memory on word use: Patients with amnesia use less imageable words Standard
Miller et al. (2017) Focal CA3 hippocampal subfield atrophy following LGI1 VGKC-complex antibody limbic encephalitis Standard 
McCormick, Rosenthal, Miller, & Maguire (2016) Hippocampal Damage Increases Deontological Responses during Moral Decision Making Standard
Kwan et al. (2016) Specific, personally meaningful cues can benefit episodic prospection in medial temporal lobe amnesia Standard 
Lenton-Brym et al. (2016) A new method for assessing the impact of medial temporal lobe amnesia on the characteristics of generated autobiographical events Adapted: Past and Future events
Dede et al. (2016) Autobiographical memory, future imagining, and the medial temporal lobe Adapted : Future events
Dede et al. (2016) Learning and remembering real-world events after medial temporal lobe damage Adapted : Staged Event
Hilverman, Cook, & Duff (2016) Hippocampal declarative memory supports gesture production: Evidence from amnesia Standard 
Grilli & Verfaellie (2015) Supporting the self-concept with memory: insight from amnesia Adapted: categorized by personal and non-personal
Kurczek et al. (2015) Differential contributions of hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex to self-projection and self-referential processing Adapted: Real and imagined narratives
Palombo, Keane, & Verfaellie (2015) The medial temporal lobes are critical for reward-based decision making under conditions that promote episodic future thinking Adapted: Future events
Verfaellie, Bousquet, Keane (2014)  Medial temporal and neocortical contributions to remote memory for semantic narratives: evidence from amnesia Adapted: Semantic narratives 
Kwan et al. (2013) Dissociations in future thinking following hippocampal damage: evidence from discounting and time perspective in episodic amnesia Adapted: Future events
Race, Keane, Verfaellie (2013)  Losing sight of the future: Impaired semantic prospection following medial temporal lobe lesions Adapted: Public opinion descriptions
Race, Keane, Verfaellie (2013)  Living in the moment: Patients with MTL amnesia can richly describe the present despite deficits in past and future thought Adapted: Picture narratives
Race, Keane, Verfaellie (2011)  Medial temporal lobe damage causes deficits in episodic memory and episodic future thinking not attributable to deficits in narrative construction Adapted: Past and future events
Squire et al. (2010)  Role of the hippocampus in remembering the past and imagining the future Adapted: Past and future events
Rosenbaum et al. (2009)  Amnesia as an impairment of detail generation and binding: evidence from personal, fictional, and semantic narratives in K.C. Adapted: Fictional and semantic events
Levine et al. (2009)  Behavioral and functional neuroanatomical correlates of anterograde autobiographical memory in isolated retrograde amnesic patient M.L. Standard 
Rosenbaum et al. (2008)  Patterns of autobiographical memory loss in medial-temporal lobe amnesic patients Standard 
Kirwan et al. (2008)  Detailed recollection of remote autobiographical memory after damage to the medial temporal lobe Standard 
Hassabis et al. (2007) Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences Adapted: Scoring system adapted from AI
Gilboa et al. (2006)  Hippocampal contributions to recollection in retrograde and anterograde amnesia Adapted: Photograph cues
Steinvorth, Levine & Corkin (2005)  Medial temporal lobe structures are needed to re-experience remote autobiographical memories: evidence from H.M. and W.R. Standard 
Rosenbaum et al. (2005)  The case of K.C.: contributions of a memory-impaired person to memory theory Adapted: Past and future events
Rosenbaum et al. (2004)  Visual imagery deficits, impaired strategic retrieval, or memory loss: disentangling the nature of an amnesic person's autobiographical memory deficit Standard 
MTL - Developmental
Burns et al. (2021) The effects of cueing episodic future thinking on delay discounting in children, adolescents, and adults Standard
Glynn, Salmon, & Low (2021) Retrieval-induced forgetting for autobiographical memories beyond recall rates: A developmental study Adapted: Addis (2008)
Blumenthal et al. (2017) Abnormal semantic knowledge in a case of developmental amnesia Standard 
Rabin et al. (2016) Using fMRI to understand event construction in developmental amnesia Adapted: Future events
Rabin et al. (2013)  Imagining other people's experiences in a person with impaired episodic memory: The role of personal familiarity Adapted: Theory of mind 
Rosenbaum et al. (2011)  Impaired event memory and recollection in a case of developmental amnesia Standard and Adapted: Public events
Hurley, Maguire, Vargha-Khadem (2011)  Patient HC with developmental amnesia can construct future scenarios Adapted: Future events
Kwan et al. (2010) Deficits in past remembering extend to future imagining in a case of developmental amnesia Adapted: Past and future events
MTL - Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Descamps et al. (2021) Emotional Autobiographical Memory Associated with Insular
Resection in Epileptic Patients: A Comparison with Temporal
Lobe Resection		 Adapted: back translated to French and for time period and valence
Zeman et al. (2017) Touching the void – first and third person perspectives in two cases of autobiographical amnesia linked to temporal lobe epilepsy Standard
Lechowicz et al. (2016) Imagining future events in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy Adapted: Past and future events
Múnera et al. (2014) Episodic and semantic autobiographical memory in temporal lobe epilepsy Standard
St-Laurent et al. (2014)  The perceptual richness of complex memory episodes is compromised by medial temporal lobe damage Adapted: Past events, movie clip, and narrative descriptions
St-Laurent et al. (2011)  The temporal unraveling of autobiographical memory narratives in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy or excisions Standard  with temporal resolution scores 
Sheldon, McAndrews, Moscovitch (2011)  Episodic memory processes mediated by the medial temporal lobes contribute to open-ended problem solving Adapted: Problem solving
Park et al. (2011)  The immediacy of recollection: the use of the historical present in narratives of autobiographical episodes by patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy Adapted: Scored for word use
Herfurth et al. (2010)  Autobiographical memory in temporal lobe epilepsy: role of hippocampal and temporal lateral structures Adapted: Episodic richness scale
St-Laurent et al. (2009)  Determinants of autobiographical memory in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy or excisions Adapted: Generic memories
Addis et al. (2007) Consequences of hippocampal damage across the autobiographical memory network in left temporal lobe epilepsy Adapted: Rated for requency of rehersal
Transient Epileptic Amnesia
Becquet et al. (2021)
 Episodic autobiographical memory impairment and differences in pronoun use: study of self-awareness in functional amnesia and transient global amnesia Adapted: EAM task inspired by AI 
Savage et al. (2019) The evolution of accelerated long-term forgetting: Evidence from the TIME study Standard 
Milton, Butler, Zeman (2011) Transient epileptic amnesia: déjà vu heralding recovery of lost memories Standard 
Hornberger et al. (2010) Focal retrograde amnesia: Extending the clinical syndrome of transient
epileptic amnesia		 Standard
Milton et al. (2010)  Remote memory deficits in transient epileptic amnesia Adapted
Other
Cole et al. (2025) Emotional past and future events after pulvinar damage: A neuropsychological case series Adapted: Past events, future events, internal detail, external detail coding scheme
Rosenbaum et al. (2023) Temporal Construal Effects Are Independent of Episodic Future Thought Adapted: Scoring of the Galton-Crovitz Episodic Prospection Task based on internal and external details of the Autobiographical Interview
Mok et al. (2021) Does Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage Really Increase Impulsiveness? Delay and Probability Discounting in Patients with Focal Lesions Adapted:L Galton-Crovitz Cue Word Test
Waisman et al. (2022) Painful reminders: Involvement of the autobiographical memory system in pediatric postsurgical pain and the transition to chronicity Review
Verfaellie et al. (2019) Self-Related Processing and Future Thinking: Distinct Contributions of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex and the Medial Temporal Lobes Standard
De Luca et al. (2018) Episodic future thinking and future-based decision-making in a case of retrograde amnesia Standard
Rasmussen & Bernsten (2018) Deficits in remembering the past and imagining the future in patients with prefrontal lesions Adapted: Past and Future events
Belfi et al. (2018) Damage to the medial prefrontal cortex impairs music-evoked autobiographical memories Standard
Wammes, Good & Fernandes (2017) Autobiographical and episodic memory deficits in mild traumatic brain injury Adapted: Free recall
Bertossi et al. (2017) Episodic future thinking following vmPFC Damage: Impaired Event Construction, Maintenance, or Narration? Adapted:Past event, future event and picture description
Esopenko & Levine (2017) Autobiographical memory and structural brain changes in chronic phase TBI Standard
Miller et al. (2016) Into the future with little past: exploring mental time travel in a patient with damage to the mammillary bodies/fornix Adapted
Zeman et al. (2016) The GABAB receptor agonist, baclofen, contributes to three distinct varieties of amnesia in the human brain – A detailed case report Standard
Bertossi et al. (2016) Ventromedial prefrontal damage causes a pervasive impairment of episodic memory and future thinking Adapted: Past and future events
Palombo et al. (2015) Alterations in autobiographical memory for a blast event in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans with mild traumatic brain injury Adapted: Recall of blast event
Rasmussen & Berntsen (2014) Autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury Adapted: Past and future events
Weiler et al. (2011) Differential impairment of remembering the past and imagining novel events after thalamic lesions Adapted
Berryhill et al. (2010)  Similarities and differences between parietal and frontal patients in autobiographical and constructed experience tasks  Standard  and Adapted: Imagined event
Davidson et al. (2008)  Does lateral parietal cortex support episodic memory? Evidence from focal lesion patients Standard 
Berryhill et al. (2007)  Parietal lobe and episodic memory: bilateral damage causes impaired free recall of autobiographical memory Standard 
Neurodegeneration 
Author Study Title  Methodology
Neurodegeneration
Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
Balabin et al. (2025) Natural language processing-based classification of earlyAlzheimer’s disease from connected speech Standard
Acevedo-Molina et al. (2023) Past and future episodic detail retrieval is reduced among clinically normal older adults at higher genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease Standard
Grilli et al. (2021) Autobiographical memory fluency reductions in cognitively unimpaired middle-aged and older adults at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease dementia Standard
Philippi et al. (2017) Henry, where have you lost your Self? Adapted: Used to probe recollection and only took into account the number of memories elicited
Benjamin et al. (2015) The role of working memory and verbal fluency in autobiographical memory in early Alzheimer's disease and matched controls Standard 
Irish et al. (2015) Language of the past' - Exploring past tense disruption during autobiographical narration in neurodegenerative disorders Adapted : Past and future events
Meulenbroek et al. (2010)  Autobiographical memory retrieval in patients with Alzheimer's disease Standard 
Addis et al. (2009)  Episodic simulation of future events is impaired in mild Alzheimer's disease Adapted: Past and future events
aMCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment)
Li-Chay-Chung et al. (preprint) Autobiographical Memory & Future Thinking in Older Adults At Risk of MCI Adapted: Future events
Frankenberg et al. (2021) Neural Correlates of Autobiographical Memory: Evidence From a Positron Emission Tomography Study in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Adapted: semi-structured autobiographical interview based on AI E-AGI
Seixas-Lima et al. (2020) Episodic memory decline is associated with deficits in coherence of discourse Standard 
Seixas-Lima et al. (2020) Language and memory: An investigation of the relationship between autobiographical memory recall and narrative production of semantic and episodic information Standard
Coelho et al. (2019) Mental time travel in mild cognitive impairment Adapted: Past and future events
Sheldon et al. (2015) Ill-defined problem solving in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: linking episodic memory to effective solution generation Standard
Bastin et al. (2013)  Episodic autobiographical memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: What are the neural correlates?  Adapted: Score for TempAU memories
Tramoni et al. (2012)  Alteration of autobiographical memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment Adapted: Score for AMI memories
Gamboz et al. (2010)  Episodic future thinking in amnesic mild cognitive impairment Adapted: Past and future events
Murphy et al. (2008)  Episodic, but not semantic, autobiographical memory is reduced in amnestic mild cognitive impairment Standard 
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
Ryan et al. (2022) The New Zealand Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia Study (FTDGeNZ): a longitudinal study of pre-symptomatic biomarkers Adapted: Future events
Ramanan et al. (2021) Evidence for a pervasive autobiographical memory impairment in Logopenic Progressive Aphasia Short version
Seixas-Lima et al. (2020) Impaired coherence for semantic but not episodic autobiographical memory in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia Standard
Renoult et al. (2020) Classification of general and personal semantic details in the Autobiographical Interview Standard
Irish et al. (2017) Evolution of autobiographical memory impairments in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia - A longitudinal neuroimaging study Adapted: Shortened
Irish et al. (2014) Grey and white matter correlates of recent and remote autobiographical memory retrieval insights from the dementias Adapted: averaged internal details across time periods
Irish, Hodges, Piguet (2013)  Episodic future thinking is impaired in the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia Adapted: Past and future events
McKinnon et al. (2008)  Autobiographical memory and patterns of brain atrophy in fronto-temporal lobar degeneration Standard 
Semantic Dementia (SD)
Irish et al. (2012)  Exploring the content and quality of episodic future simulations in semantic dementia Standard 
Duval et al. (2012)  What happens to personal identity when semantic knowledge degrades? A study of the self and autobiographical memory in semantic dementia Adapted : Past and future events
McKinnon et al. (2006)  Autobiographical memory in semantic dementia: Implications for theories of limbic-neocortical interaction in remote memory Standard 
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Ayala et al. (2022) Episodic past, future, and counterfactual thinking in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis Standard
Ernst et al. (2018) Benefits from an autobiographical memory facilitation programme in relapsing - remitting multiple sclerosis patients: a clinical and neuroimaging study Standard
Ernst et al. (2016) Distinct and common cerebral activation changes during mental time travel in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients Adapted: Past and future events
Ernst et al. (2016) Functional and structural cerebral changes in key brain regions after a facilitation programme for episodic future thought in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients Adapted : Future events 
Ernst et al. (2015) Using mental visual imagery to improve autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients: A randomised-controlled trial study Adapted: Past and future events
Ernst et al. (2015) Neural correlates of episodic future thinking impairment in multiple sclerosis patients Adapted: Future events
Ernst et al. (2014) Impaired mental simulation of specific past and future personal events in non-depressed multiple sclerosis patients Adapted: Past and future events
Ernst et al. (2014) Functional cerebral changes in multiple sclerosis patients during an autobiographical memory test Adapted: cue words 
Ernst et al. (2012)  Induced brain plasticity after a facilitation programme for autobiographical memory in multiple sclerosis: a preliminary study Standard 
West, McNerney, Krauss (2007)  Impaired strategic monitoring as the locus of a focal prospective memory deficit Standard 
Parkinson's Disease (PD)
de Vito et al. (2012)  Future thinking in Parkinson's disease: an executive function? Adapted : Past and future events
Amyotrophic Lateral Schlerosis (ALS)
Hsieh et al. (2016) My memories are important to me: Changes in autobiographical memory in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Standard 
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Sullivan et al. (2021) Future and past autobiographical memory in persons with HIV disease Standard
Huntington's Disease (HD)
Horne et al. (2024) Delineating the neural substrates of autobiographical memory impairment in Huntington's disease Standard
Carmichael et al. (2019) Pervasive autobiographical memory impairments in Huntington's disease Standard
Mixed Cases 
Strikwerda-Brown et al. (2022) Examining the episodic-semantic interaction during future thinking - A reanalysis of external details. Adapted: Future events
Brunette et al. (2019) Is Episodic Future Thinking Important for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living? A Study in Neurological Patients and Healthy Older Adults Adapted AI: EFT
Strikwerda-Brown, Mothakunnel, Hodges, Piuget, & Irish (2018) External details revisited – A new taxonomy for coding ‘non‐episodic’ content during autobiographical memory retrieval Standard 
Ahmed et al. (2018) Association between precuneus volume and autobiographical memory impairment in posterior cortical atrophy: Beyond the visual syndrome Adapted: Shortened
Kumfor et al. (2016) Examining the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory Impairment and Carer Burden in Dementia Syndromes Standard 
Miles et al. (2013) Turning back the hands of time: Autobiographical memories in dementia cued by a museum setting Adapted: Conversational 
Irish et al. (2012)  Considering the role of semantic memory in episodic future thinking: evidence from semantic dementia Adapted: Past and future events
Crete-Nishihata et al. (2012)  Reconstructing the past: Personal memory technologies are not just personal and not just for memory Adapted: Evaluation tool
Barnabe et al. (2012)  Autobiographical memory in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: a comparison between the Levine and Kopelman interview methodologies Adapted 
Irish et al. (2011)  Profiles of recent autobiographical memory retrieval in semantic dementia, behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia, and Alzheimer's disease Abbreviated 
Psychiatric Conditions 
Author Study Title  Methodology
Psychiatric Conditions
Narcissistic Grandiosity
Finch et al. (2023) Grandiose narcissism influences the phenomenology of remembered past andimagined future events Adapted: Standard and Future Events
Bipolar Disorder (BD)
da Silva et al. (2021) Autobiographical Memory and Episodic Specificity Across Different Affective States in Bipolar Disorder Standard
King et al. (2013) Impaired episodic memory for events encoded during mania in patients with bipolar disorder Adapted: Mood induction
King et al. (2011)  Patients with bipolar disorder show a selective deficit in the episodic simulation of future events Adapted: Future events
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
Keats et al. (2023) My Turning Point Tells the Story: A Longitudinal Examination of Greater Episodic Detail and Youth Depressive Symptoms  Adapted: Future Events Scoring
Marsh et al. (2022) From basic science to clinical practice: Do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tasks benefit from enhanced episodic specificity? Standard
Cha et al. (2022) Examining multiple features of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal adults Adapted: imagined events
Salmon et al. (2021) Delving into the detail: Greater episodic detail in narratives of a critical life event predicts an increase in adolescent depressive symptoms across one year Adapted: coding guided by the Adapted Autobiographical Interview
Scoring Manual (Addis et al., 2008; based on; Levine et al., 2002)
Yeung & Fernandes (2020) Recurrent involuntary autobiographical memories: characteristics and links to mental health status Standard
Hallford et al. (2021) Specificity and detail in autobiographical memory retrieval: a multi-site (re) investigation Adapted: AI used to score the AMT
Parlar et al. (2018) Neural and behavioural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval in patients with major depressive disorder and a history of trauma exposure. Adapted: manipulated level of structure available across retrieval conditions
Parlar et al. (2016) Parental bonding and neuropsychological performance are associated with episodic simulation of future events in trauma-exposed patients with major depressive disorder. Adapted : Future events
Söderlund et al. (2014) Autobiographical episodic memory in major depressive disorder Adapted: Standard
King et al. (2011)  Episodic simulation of future events is impaired in patients with major depressive disorder Adapted: Future events
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Blumenthal et al (2024) Understanding the structure of autobiographical memories: A study of trauma memories from the 1994 Rwandan genocide Standard
Andrews et al. (2023) ‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall Standard
Verfaellie et al. (2023) Imagining emotional future events in PTSD: clinical and neurocognitive correlates Adapted: Future events
Memel et al. (2021) Autobiographical recall of a stressful negative event in veterans with PTSD Adapted
Palombo et al. (2015) The neural correlates of memory for a life-threatening event:  An fMRI study of passengers from flight AT236 Standard
McKinnon et al. (2014) Threat of death and autobiographical memory: a study of passengers from Flight AT236 Standard
Brown et al. (2014)  Episodic and semantic components of autobiographical memories and imagined future events in post-traumatic stress disorder Adapted: Past and future events
Schizophrenia
Herold (2023) Autobiographical memory impairment in chronic schizophrenia: Significance and clinical correlates Adapted: Semi-structured autobiographical interview E-AGI
Dassing et al. (2022) Improving autobiographical memory in schizophrenia using wearable cameras: A single-case experimental study Standard
Dassing et al. (2020) Cognitive Intervention Targeting Autobiographical Memory Impairment in Patients With Schizophrenia Using a Wearable Camera: A Proof-of-Concept Study Standard
Gündüz et al. (2020) Investigation of the cortical activity during episodic future thinking in schizophrenia: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study Standard
Yang et al. (2019) Neural correlates of prospection impairments in schizophrenia: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry analysis Adapted: Prospection task
Yang et al. (2019) Functional connectivity of the default mode network is associated with prospection in schizophrenia patients and individuals with social anhedonia Adapted: Prospection task
Yang et al. (2018) Prospection deficits in schizophrenia: Evidence from clinical and subclinical samples Adapted: Richness of detail assessed by time and location, sensory information, and emotional information
MacDougall et al. (2015) The relationship between insight and autobiographical memory for emotional events in schizophrenia Adapted: Positive, negative, and neutral events
Potheegadoo et al. (2014)  Effectiveness of a specific cueing method for improving autobiographical memory recall in patients with schizophrenia Adapted : Pre and post-testing
Social Anxiety
Landkroon et al. (2022) The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation Standard scoring
Romano et al. (2020) The effects of imagery rescripting on memory outcomes in social anxiety disorder Standard
Moscovitch et al. (2018)  Autobiographical memory retrieval and appraisal in social anxiety disorder Standard
Moscovitch et al. (2011)  Retrieval properties of negative vs. positive mental images and autobiographical memories in social anxiety: outcomes with a new measure Adapted: Positive and negative image cues
Korsakoff's Syndrome
Janssen et al. (2021) Exploring episodic and semantic contributions to past and future thinking performance in Korsakoff's syndrome Standard and Adapted: Future Events
El Haj & Nandrino (2018) Seeing life through rose-colored spectacles: Autobiographical memory as experienced in Korsakoff’s syndrome Standard
Rensen et al. (2017) Personal semantic and episodic autobiographical memories in Korsakoff syndrome: A comparison of interview methods Adapted: In combination with AMI
Developmental 
Author Study Title  Methodology
Developmental
Tanguay et al. (2023) Using an episodic specificity induction to improve children’s future thinking Adapted: Future Events
Horner et al. (2023) Self-initiating and applying episodic foresight in middle childhood. Adapted: Future Events
Maziero et al. (2023) A preliminary study of the different memory systems in neurofibromatosis type 1: What is impaired and what is spared? Children’s Version
Terrett et al. (2019) The relationship between episodic future thinking and prospective memory in middle childhood: Mechanisms depend on task type Adapted Children's : Past and future events
McCue et al. (2019) The future and me: Imagining the future and the future self in adolescent decision making Adapted Children's : Past and future events
de Paula et al. (2016) Autobiographical memory and precursor skills in the second phase of childhood amnesia Children's Version
Bromberg, Wiehler & Peters (2015) Episodic Future Thinking Is Related to Impulsive Decision Making in Healthy Adolescents Adapted Children's : Future events
Wang et al. (2014)  Past and future episodic thinking in middle childhood Adapted Children's : Past and future events
Richmond & Pan (2013) Thinking about the future early in life: The role of relational memory Adapted Children's: Imagined event
Gott, Lah (2013)  Episodic future thinking in children compared to adolescents Adapted Children's : Past and future events
Willoughby et al. (2012) Episodic and semantic autobiographical memory and everyday memory during late childhood and early adolescence Children's Version
Traumatic Brain Injury
Lah et al. (2019) Selective, age-related autobiographical memory deficits in children with severe traumatic brain injury Children's Version
Lah et al. (2018) Imagining the Future in Children with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Adapted Children's : Past and future events
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Coutelle et al. (2021) Episodic Autobiographical Memory in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Exploration With the Autobiographical Interview Adapted: No general probe
Ciaramelli et al. (2018) Construction of Past and Future Events in Children and Adolescents with ASD: Role of Self-relatedness and Relevance to Decision-Making  Adapted Children's : Past and future events
Maister, Simons & Plaisted-Grant (2013) Executive functions are employed to process episodic and relational memories in children with autism spectrum disorders Children's Version
Terrett et al. (2013)  Episodic future thinking in children with autism spectrum disorder Adapted Children's : Past and future events
Beattie (2008) Executive functioning and autobiographical memory retrieval in Asperger's Syndrome Children's Version
Brain Tumour
Sekeres et al. (2018) Impaired Recent, but Preserved Remote, Autobiographical Memory in Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients Children's Version
Hypothyroidism
Willoughby, McAndrews, Rovet (2014)  Accuracy of episodic autobiographical memory in children with early thyroid hormone deficiency using a staged event Adapted: Staged Event
Willoughby, McAndrews, Rovet (2013)  Effects of early thyroid hormone deficiency on children's autobiographical memory performance Children's Version
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE)
Gascoigne et al. (2015)  Autobiographical memory in children with Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsy Children's Version
Gascoigne et al. (2013)  Autobiographical memory in children with temporal lobe epilepsy Children's Version