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Memory of autobiographical events
Episodic memory is the memory of everyday events that can be explicitly stated or conjured. It is the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at particular times and places; for example, the party on one's 7th birthday. Along with semantic memory, it comprises the category of explicit memory, one of the two major divisions of long-term memory. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Episodic memoryA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Gamma oscillations and episodic memoryInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Working with Autobiographical Memories in TherapyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The episodic buffer: a new component of working memory?Cited 4,950 times
- Go sideways: Explicit memoryA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Retrograde amnesiaA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A type of long-term, declarative memory in which memories are stored of personal experiences that are tied to particular times and places.
Noun The system of the brain which stores personal memories and the concept of self.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The episodic buffer: a new component of working memory?
Episodic Memory: From Mind to Brain
Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory.
Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memory.
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Working with Autobiographical Memories in TherapyArnold R. Bruhn · 2019
How we rememberMichael E. Hasselmo · 2011
Nostalgia FactoryDouwe Draaisma · 2013
Episodic memoryMartin A. Conway, John P. Aggleton · 2002- 📕Current Controversies in Philosophy of MemoryAndré Sant'Anna, Christopher McCarroll · 2022
Mental Time TravelKourken Michaelian, Kim Sterelny · 2016
Generations and Collective MemoryAmy Corning, Howard Schuman · 2015
Space,Time and Memory in the Hippocampal FormationDori Derdikman, James J. Knierim · 2014
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