... is essentially human life. One of the many functions is what Tulving (1983) called "Mental time travel", the ability to experience past events. Such autobiographical memories are thought to be structured at different levels of temporal and spatial specificity that together are used as reference for the construction of "self". This mental time travel can take place through different hierarchic levels of autobiographical organisation. The hierarchy level can be as general as university experiences or as specific as remembering the topic of conversation with a certain person on a certain day (Cohen, 1998). Autobiographical memories are therefore seen as being autonoetic in that they carry information about the context in which they were experienced. Flashbulb memories carry such autonoetic information, but are believed to critically different. Brown & Kulik (1977), introduced the term flashbulb memory to describe memories that are preserved in an almost indiscriminate way. They postulated that ...

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