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Title: Elements of episodic memory: lessons from 40 years of research
Author(s): Martin-Ordas, Gema
Easton, Alexander
Contact Email: gema.martin-ordas@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Episodic memory
Autonoetic awareness
Mental Time Travel
Issue Date: 4-Nov-2024
Date Deposited: 5-Oct-2024
Citation: Martin-Ordas G & Easton A (2024) Elements of episodic memory: lessons from 40 years of research. <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences</i>, 379 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0395
Abstract: 40 years ago, Endel Tulving published his hugely influential Elements of Episodic Memory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983). For the first time, this discussed the details of episodic memory (i.e. the ability to remember personal past events), including a specific conscious experience. Ten years later, Tulving defined the ability to mentally project oneself in time to be the critical feature distinguishing episodic from semantic memory (‘What is episodic memory?’ Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci. 2, 67–70, doi:10.1111/1467-8721.ep10770899). In this conception, the conscious experience of episodic memory captures the experience of reliving a personal event as it was experienced in the past, while the same ability allows a potential symmetry between remembering the past, and our ability to project into an imagined future. With the recent passing of Endel Tulving, this theme issue offers an opportunity to question our understanding of mental time travel in full.
DOI Link: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0395
Rights: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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