Concept information
Preferred term
episodic memory
Definition
- Memory of personal experiences (episodes) located in time and space. According to recent developments of the concept, episodic memory allows us to mentally travel to the past and to imagine the future through autonoetic consciousness.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- contextualized memory
- episodic autobiographical memory
- episodic-like memory
- event memory
- experiential memory
- recollective memory
- WWW memory
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Billard, P., Clayton, N. S., & Jozet-Alves, C. (2019). Episodic memory. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior (p. 1–13). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1770-1
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• Crystal, J. D. (2018). Animal models of episodic memory. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 13, 105–122. https://doi.org/10.3819/CCBR.2018.130012
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• Fan, C. L., Sokolowski, H. M., Rosenbaum, R. S., & Levine, B. (2023). What about “space” is important for episodic memory? WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(3), e1645. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1645
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• Huston, J. P., & Chao, O. Y. (2023). Probing the nature of episodic memory in rodents. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 144, 104930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104930
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• Morton, C., & MacLeod, A. K. (2023). Vividness of imagery and affective response to episodic memories and episodic future thoughts: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Memory, 31(8), 1098–1110. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2224609
[Study type: meta-analysis / Access: open]
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• Ranganath, C. (2022). What is episodic memory and how do we use it? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(12), 1059–1061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.09.023
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• Renoult, L., Irish, M., Moscovitch, M., & Rugg, M. D. (2019). From knowing to remembering : The semantic–episodic distinction. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(12), 1041–1057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.09.008
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• Renoult, L., & Rugg, M. D. (2020). An historical perspective on Endel Tulving’s episodic-semantic distinction. Neuropsychologia, 139, 107366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107366
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• Robins, S. K. (2022). Episodic memory is not for the future. In A. Sant’Anna, C. J. McCarroll, & K. Michaelian (Eds.), Current controversies in philosophy of memory (pp. 166–184). Routledge.
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• Staniloiu, A., Kordon, A., & Markowitsch, H. J. (2020). Quo vadis ‘episodic memory’? – Past, present, and perspective. Neuropsychologia, 141, 107362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107362
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• Sugar, J., & Moser, M.-B. (2019). Episodic memory: Neuronal codes for what, where, and when. Hippocampus, 29(12), 1190–1205. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23132
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• Torres-Morales, C., & Cansino, S. (2024). Brain representations of space and time in episodic memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 24(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01140-1
[Study type: meta-analysis / Access: open]
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• Tulving, E. (1972). Episodic and semantic memory. In W. Donaldson (Ed.), Organization of Memory (pp. 381‑402). Academic Press.
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• Tulving, E. (1972). Mémoire épisodique et mémoire sémantique. Dans S. Nicolas & P. Piolino (2010). Anthologie de psychologie cognitive de la mémoire (pp. 85–106). De Boeck.
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• Tulving, E. (1984). Précis of Elements of episodic memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7(2), 223–238. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0004440X
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• Tulving, E. (2002). Episodic memory: From mind to brain. Annual Review of Psychology, 53(1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135114
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• Tulving, E., Eustache, F., Desgranges, B., & Viader, F. (2004). La mémoire épisodique : de l’esprit au cerveau. Revue Neurologique, 160(4, Part 2), 9–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0035-3787(04)70940-6
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• Tulving, E., & Szpunar, K. K. (2009). Episodic memory. Scholarpedia, 4(8), 3332. https://doi.org/10.4249/scholarpedia.3332
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Creator
- Frank Arnould
Has model(s)
- BIC model
- bind cue decide model of episodic memory
- Composite Holographic Associative Recall Model
- General Abstract Processing System Model
- HERA model
- HERNET model
- HIPER model
- Matrix model
- MINERVA 2
- Predictive Interactive Multiple Memory Systems model
- Recognition through Semantic Synchronization model
- retrieving effectively from memory model
- SAM model
- SIMPLE model
- Source of Activation Confusion model
- SPI model
- TODAM
Has study method(s)
- A-B, A-Br learning task
- A-B, A-C learning task
- A-B, C-B learning task
- Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination - III
- associative recognition task
- Autobiographical Interview
- Benton Facial Recognition Test
- California Verbal Learning Test
- Cambridge Face Memory Test
- cognitive interview
- continuous paired-associate learning task
- continuous recognition task
- delayed non-matching to sample task
- DemTect
- directed free recall task
- Doors and People Test
- double-function pairs
- emotional false memory paradigm
- Encoding, Storage, Retrieval test
- episodic specificity induction
- Face-Name Associative Memory Exam
- forced choice recognition task
- forced recall task
- free recall task
- GERIA-12
- graphemic cued recall task
- Grober and Buschke test
- IMA-12
- item-method directed forgetting paradigm
- list-method directed forgetting paradigm
- magnetoencephalography
- Mattis Dementia Rating Scale
- Memory Alteration Test
- Memory Binding Test
- Memory Experiences Questionnaire
- memory Stroop paradigm
- MEMO test
- Mini Mental State Examination
- missing item task
- mnemonic discrimination of object-in-context task
- mnemonic similarity task
- mobile conjugate reinforcement technique
- NICHD protocol
- one-list-back paradigm
- paired-associates learning task
- part-set cuing task
- process dissociation procedure
- Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire
- Quick Mild Cognitive Impairment Screen
- recall task
- recognition task
- Remember/Know paradigm
- repeated reproduction
- response signal procedure
- Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test
- Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test
- Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test for Children
- saving method
- selective directed forgetting paradigm
- Self-Initiated Memory Test
- Semantic and Episodic Memory Test
- serial recall task
- serial reproduction task
- sound-scene paired-associates paradigm
- spin list
- Survey of Autobiographical Memory
- Test for Odor Memory
- Test of Episodic Memory for the Autobiographical Past
- think/no-think paradigm
- train task
- two-alternatives forced choice procedure
- violation of expectation paradigm
- Virtual Reality Everyday Assessment Lab
- visual association test
- visual paired-comparison paradigm
- yes/no recognition task
Has theory(ies)
Component of
Impaired in
- accelerated long-term forgetting
- age-associated memory impairment
- Alzheimer's disease
- amnesia
- amnestic mild cognitive impairment
- amnestic syndrome
- anterograde amnesia
- autoreferential contamination
- bi-hippocampal amnestic syndrome
- confabulation
- developmental amnesia
- developmental dysmnesia
- environmental reduplicative paramnesia
- habit confabulation
- Korsakoff syndrome
- memory confusion
- memory fabrication
- mild cognitive impairment
- misplacement confabulation
- prosopamnesia
- recollective confabulation
- retrograde amnesia
- semantically anomalous confabulation
- severely deficient autobiographical memory
- source amnesia
- topographical memory loss
- transient epileptic amnesia
- transient global amnesia
Measured by
Editorial note
- The phrase "episodic-like memory" is mainly used in non-human animal studies.
In other languages
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French
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mémoire autobiographique épisodique
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mémoire contextualisée
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mémoire de type épisodique
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mémoire des évènements
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mémoire recollective
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souvenir épisodique
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-DP4NMT2L-9
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