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autobiographically significant concept  

Definition

  • "[...] semantic concepts that are associated with vivid episodic memories." (Renoult et al., 2012, p. 553).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Renoult, L., Davidson, P. S. R., Palombo, D. J., Moscovitch, M., & Levine, B. (2012). Personal semantics : At the crossroads of semantic and episodic memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(11), 550–558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.09.003

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

  • • Renoult, L., Davidson, P. S. R., Schmitz, E., Park, L., Campbell, K., Moscovitch, M., & Levine, B. (2015). Autobiographically significant concepts : More episodic than semantic in nature? An electrophysiological investigation of overlapping types of memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(1), 57‑72. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00689

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

  • • Westmacott, R., & Moscovitch, M. (2003). The contribution of autobiographical significance to semantic memory. Memory & Cognition, 31(5), 761‑774. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196114

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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