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temporal compression  

Definition

  • A process by which the continuous flow of information experienced during a personal event is summarized in episodic memory by a succession of moments. This process is evidenced by the fact that remembering an event takes less time than experiencing it.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • d’Argembeau, A. (2022). Le temps du souvenir. Revue de neuropsychologie, 14(4), 244–246. https://doi.org/10.1684/nrp.2022.0727

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • D’Argembeau, A., Jeunehomme, O., & Stawarczyk, D. (2022). Slices of the past: How events are temporally compressed in episodic memory. Memory, 30(1), 43–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1896737

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Jeunehomme, O., Folville, A., Stawarczyk, D., Van der Linden, M., & D’Argembeau, A. (2018). Temporal compression in episodic memory for real-life events. Memory, 26, 759–770. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2017.1406120 ​

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Folville, A. (2020, February 3). The impact of age on the temporal compression of daily life events in episodic memory. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/SDHQF
  • • Olivier, J., & D’Argembeau, A. (2022, February 2). Memory editing: the role of temporal discontinuities in the compression of events in episodic memory. https://osf.io/wnpr5

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