Sentences with phrase «episodic autobiographical memories»

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The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.

The hippocampus has been implicated in episodic and autobiographical memory formation in animal models (Devito and Eichenbaum, 2011; Ergorul and Eichenbaum, 2004; Morris et al., 1982; Squire, 1992) and humans (Squire and Zola - Morgan, 1991; Tulving, 2002).

By contrast, «episodic memory» refers to the encoding of autobiographical information relating to a specific event that is located in time.

When a person recalls an autobiographical memory, then, these two types of long - term memory representation are brought together and a person consciously experiences episodic memories of specific aspects of the past and conceptual knowledge that acts as a personal context for the episodic memories, locating them in a person's life and providing a personal, self - relevant, meaning for them (3.15).

This study examined the relationship between episodic and semantic autobiographical memory and self - concept clarity in 100 undergraduate students.

Research suggests that an overgeneral autobiographical memory style (i.e., retrieval of general memories when instructed to retrieve a specific episodic memory) represents a vulnerability marker for depression.