Feeling-of-Knowing Accuracy and Recollective Experience

Recollections of particular episodes from an individual's past are referred to as personal memories (Brewer, 1986, 1988). ¹ Key features of personal memories seem to be that they (1) are specific, (2) involve the self, and (3) are accompanied by a strong experience of recognition that the phenomenal experience on which they are based actually occurred. These kinds of memories constitute the “minutiae of memory,” and those that survive may be especially linked to more permanent autobiographical memory knowledge structures (Conway, 2002).