Ali Mair

Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Leeds.
Interested in autobiographical memory, ageing, amnesia, wearable tech, & ways of improving retrieval

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I hope this will be interesting/useful for other autobiographical memory researchers!

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I had this paper accepted just before Christmas... https://t.co/JAaFTgUq6F

"Cueing autobiographical memory in young and older adults: an exploration of the effect of cue type on retrieval rates and memory characteristics"

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Open materials and data available on OSF, linked in the article. This includes ~2500 brief descriptions of autobiographical memories, and loads of supplementary analyses I couldn't fit in the main paper.

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I'm giving a talk at Leeds Beckett On Wed 27th November, about my work using wearable cameras to support memory. I would love some audience members if anyone's in Leeds! Here's a link to the booking page: https://t.co/RY3t2YjqMg

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New postdoc position: studying the neurobiological mechanisms of strategy use to improve memory in ageing - at the University of Leeds, with @richjallen & @DrMelanieBurke ! Closes 8th Nov https://t.co/OimeFyUmQi

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...and my first ever lay summary on Kudos here https://t.co/7BD1aGIS6W

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New preprint!

Non-episodic autobiographical memory details reflect attempts to tell a good story (in both young and older adults)
https://t.co/kXujRmxdC8

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Final version now available in Psychology & Aging, here (Online First): https://t.co/P3JaOyWaAe ���

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@neil_howlett Congratulations Neil!!

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@HelgiYSJ @YorkStJohn @DrSarahBaker @_ap_hill @garry_tew @YSJPsych Congratulations Helgi!

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@AlexGalvezPol Congratulations Alex, amazing news!! 🥳🥳🥳

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@RenoultLouis This is great! We came to a similar conclusion via a different method https://t.co/T78Zb7gPKP

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New preprint!

Non-episodic autobiographical memory details reflect attempts to tell a good story (in both young and older adults)
https://t.co/kXujRmxdC8

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@kevinmcld Not sure about illusory - 1 issue with AM research is we often don't have a good way to verify whether remembered details are accurate. It's surprisingly hard to measure accuracy of complex memories, even if there's an objective record of what happened - language is a barrier

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@CharanRanganath I agree - and some of what we consider to be "good" performance seems to be quite arbitrary. In this case, some of the non-episodic details are what makes a story rich and interesting (and intelligible to someone you don't know well)