Episodic memories are tied to a specific time and place and involve details that are connected to each other and to one’s personal experience of an event. While many kinds of memory are related ...

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Most of us find we can ‘mentally replay’ these past events in our mind’s eye. This kind of memory is called episodic memory. This project addresses two puzzles about episodic memory: Episodic memory ...

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The brain is incredibly efficient at turning whatever happens to us into the so-called episodic memory. The life-long accumulation of episodic memories greatly defines who we are and decides what we ...

Just like a time machine, episodic memory enables us to travel to the past in our minds and relive personal experiences with full clarity, as if we were going through them all over again.

He could not give one single episodic memory, with one exception—on one of his birthdays, [he remembered] going in a small plane and flying around Hartford. This obviously had a huge emotional ...

To understand how detail is lost or gained in memory, we need to look at how these memories are produced in our brains. In psychology, an episodic memory is a person’s unique memory of a ...

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