Figure 6.

Characteristics of the Remote Autobiographical Memories

(A) The percentage of Remember (R) and Know (K) responses for each autobiographical memory. A Remember response was scored if participants reported that a recollection was associated with the subjective feeling of mentally traveling back in time to the place that the event occurred. A Know response was scored if participants reported that the event had occurred but could not directly reexperience it.

(B) Vividness of the visual imagery during autobiographical recall. Vividness scores are shown separately for autobiographical memories classified as Remember (R) and Know (K), as described in (A). Note that two of the eight controls did not report any Know memories, so that only six controls are shown in this condition. Participants were asked to rate the vividness of their mental imagery using a 5 point scale, 1 (“No image at all”) to 5 (“Perfectly clear and vivid as normal vision”).

(C) The perspective from which visual imagery was viewed during autobiographical recall. Participants were asked to judge whether their recollections were viewed from the first-person perspective (from the participant's own viewpoint) or from the third-person perspective (from a third-person viewpoint). MTL, five patients with medial temporal lobe lesions; CON, 8 controls.