@article{ref1,
title=""Amnesia" for summer camps and high school graduation: memory work increases reports of prior periods of remembering less",
journal="Journal of Traumatic Stress",
year="2000",
author="Read, J. D. and Lindsay, D. Stephen",
volume="13",
number="1",
pages="129-147",
abstract="Claims regarding amnesia for childhood sexual abuse have often been based on studies of adults' responses to questions of the form, &quot;Was there ever a period of time when you remembered less of the abuse than you do now?&quot; In this experiment, 43 adult (mean age = 42) participants rated their current and prior memories of several nontraumatic childhood/adolescent events. Reports of prior periods of less memory were fairly common. Participants then engaged in &quot;reminiscence&quot; or &quot;enhanced&quot; retrieval activities directed toward remembering more about a selected target event. Following retrieval, 35% of the reminiscence condition participants reported prior poor memory for the target event, as did 70% of the enhanced condition. These results highlight the need for appropriate control conditions in retrospective studies of amnesia for childhood trauma.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-9867",
doi="10.1023/A:1007781100204",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007781100204"
}