An assistant professor in the School of Psychology uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State / Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to
retrieve episodic memories.
Not exact matches
One crucial aspect of
episodic memory is pattern separation, the ability to
retrieve the specifics of past events without generalizing to similar or partially overlapping events (Yassa and Stark, 2011).
Episodic memory involves the ability to learn, store, and
retrieve information about unique personal experiences that occur in daily life.
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.