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episodic memory: a standalone construct

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Cognitive Psychology

Memory for specific personally-experienced events in their time and place

Endel Tulving introduced the term in his 1972 chapter Episodic and semantic memory in the volume Organization of Memory, naming episodic memory as the store for specific events a person has personally experienced, each tagged with the time and place it happened, and setting it apart from semantic memory, the store of general facts and word meanings held without any record of when they were learned. In his 1983 book Elements of Episodic Memory and his 2002 review Episodic Memory: From Mind to Brain, Tulving refined it as the form of memory that lets a person mentally travel back to re-experience a past event, accompanied by the awareness of consciously recollecting that the event happened to oneself. A remembered dinner last Tuesday, with its setting and its sequence of moments, is episodic, whereas simply knowing that dinner is an evening meal is semantic. What makes episodic memory a landmark construct is that it binds one idea to autobiographical events located at a particular time and place, to the subjective experience of recollecting them, and to brain systems centred on the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe, damage to which can leave general knowledge intact while erasing memory for one's own past events.[1][2][3]

Unit
A declarative long-term memory system for time-and-place-stamped personal events, distinct from semantic memory
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by cued or free recall and recognition of previously studied events together with their contextual detail, by 'remember' versus 'know' judgments that separate conscious recollection from mere familiarity, and by structured autobiographical memory interviews

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References

  1. Tulving, E. (1972). Episodic and semantic memory. In E. Tulving & W. Donaldson (Eds.), Organization of memory (pp. 381–403). Academic Press.
  2. Tulving, E. (1983). Elements of episodic memory. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198521020
  3. Tulving, E. (2002). Episodic memory: From mind to brain. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135114

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