Autobiographical memory

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Autobiographical memory (AM)^[1] is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place)^[2] and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory.^[3] It is thus a type of explicit memory.