Figure 1.

Trial structure of the autobiographical retrieval task. During the construction stage, participants selected their preferred picture cue to use to retrieve autobiographical memories from earlier in the day, 6–18 months ago, or 5–10 years ago. During elaboration, participants overtly described the retrieved memory in as much detail as possible. The trial structure for the control task was the same, except participants chose a picture (construction stage) to describe in detail (elaboration stage), without retrieving a long-term memory. ITI, intertrial interval.