(L) Manatua Sili? E foliga mai o le a e filifili oe o se talavou (2012)

Whether the subject is your favourite songs or the greatest footballer of all time, surveys that rely on remembering the past will be skewed towards one particular decade of the participants’ lives, according to a Flinders University researcher.

Psychologist Dr Steve Janssen said that more memories are accumulated between the ages of 10 and 20 than at any other time of life.

Dr Janssen has been studying the phenomenon, which is known as the reminiscence bump, as part of his research into the way memory works.

Recently appointed to Flinders School of Psychology as a postdoctoral research fellow, Dr Janssen holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam and has worked at universities in the US and Japan.

Fai mai o ia, e ui o tagata atonu e iai ni manatuaga taua o mea taua e pei o le faaipoipo, faʻatauina o se fale poʻo le fanau mai o se tamaitiiti mai soʻo se vaitaimi oo latou olaga, o le manatuaina o le lua tausaga lona lua o le olaga o le a sili atu ona tele ma o lea e sili atu ona umi ma le taua.

A keen soccer fan, Dr Janssen, with two of his colleagues, demonstrated the robustness of the reminiscence bump by conducting a survey of Dutch soccer fans that asked them to identify the five best football players of all time.

Fai mai a ia, o le a faʻamaonia mai e mafua ona o le tele o mea e manatua e tagata i taaloga na latou vaʻaia i le va o le matutua o le 10 ma le 20, oa latou filifiliga sa fiafia i tagata taʻalo mai lena vaitaimi io latou olaga.

When comparing the midpoint of the nominated players’ careers and the age of the respondents, Dr Janssen found a peak at the age of 17.

Ma e ui lava o se tagata lauiloa tele e pei o le tagata paʻi o Johan Cruyff o le a filifilia e tagata auai o tausaga uma (e aofia ai i latou e leʻi fananau mai i le taimi na ia taaalo ai), na fai mai Dr Janssen o le lagolago sili ona malosi mo Cruyff na sau mai le vaitausaga oi le va o le 10 ma le 20 i le pito i luga o lana galuega.

"Cruyff na i ai lona maualuga i le 1974 - o tagata na filifilia Cruyff sili o latou i 50s ma 60s," o lana tala lea.

The findings resulted in Dr Janssen being interviewed by Champions magazine, the official publication of UEFA (soccer’s ruling body in Europe).

Netherlands Soccer Netherlands Johan Cruyff (ofutino uliuli) i le 1974 World Cup Cup i Sisifo Siamani.Netherlands Soccer Netherlands Johan Cruyff (ofutino uliuli) i le 1974 World Cup Cup i Sisifo Siamani.

Dr Janssen said that further evidence of the reminiscence bump can also be seen with movies, books and music.

"O ata tifaga o loʻo e vaʻaia i le va o tausaga o 15 ma 20 o le a tumau pea i lau ata tifaga e sili ona e fiafia i ai," o lana tala lea.

Dr Janssen said it is a phase of life when memory and other cognitive faculties are at their height.

“We feel that between that between 10 and 20, your memory system works really well: you take on so much new information so easily,” Dr Janssen said.

O le aʻoaʻoina o se gagana fou o se faʻataʻitaʻiga sili lea: "I lau tupulaga talavou e faigofie lava ona aʻoaʻoina ni upu fou - e manaʻomia tele taumafaiga e aʻoaʻoina ai se gagana i se tausaga mulimuli ane," o lana tala lea.

"Matou te manatu i lenei tausaga, e sili atu le lelei o faʻamatalaga o mea e sili ona lelei i le mafaufau, ma mulimuli ane e sili atu le faigofie ona toe maua mai lenei faʻamatalaga."