
A different way is to look closer at the words you use when describing the dental visits you recall. This is one way to quantify your memory for the dental visits you have made. What about the first visit you made? Do you perhaps remember visits that were somehow different from the others? If you do give it some time, you might end up recalling about a handful of individual dental visits that you have made during the past ten years, even if you in fact have made several dozens of visits during those ten years. Maybe you remember the last visit you made. How many times have you visited a dental clinic? Maybe about once a year since you were a child? That would be about… 20 times? 40? Now try to recall individual episodes of your dental visits. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. įunding: This research was financed by The Swedish Crime Victim and Support Authority (Grant No 252107824). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All data is freely available online. Received: Accepted: OctoPublished: November 16, 2016Ĭopyright: © 2016 Willén et al.

PLoS ONE 11(11):Įditor: Philip Allen, University of Akron, UNITED STATES Citation: Willén RM, Granhag PA, Strömwall LA (2016) Factors Affecting Two Types of Memory Specificity: Particularization of Episodes and Details.
