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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Memory. 2007 Feb;15(2):129–144. doi: 10.1080/09658210601119762

TABLE 1.

Autobiographical Interview Scoring Categories

Detail Type Detail Category Description
Internal Event Happenings, individuals present, weather, physical/emotional actions/reactions in others.
Time Year, season, month, day of week, time of day.
Place Localisation of an event including the city, street, building, room, part of room.
Perceptual Auditory, olfactory, tactile, taste, visual and visual details, body position, duration.
Thought/Emotion Emotional state, thoughts, implications.
External Semantic General knowledge or facts, ongoing events, extended states of being.
Repetition Unsolicited repetition of details.
Other Meta-cognitive statements, editorialising.
Extraneous Events Tangential events to the main event recalled.