Autobiographical Memory

Question 1

Autobiographical Memory

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Answer 1

• memory for episodes or experiences that occured in the person’s life
• comprised of episodic and semantic
• hippocampus and neocortex is involved in retrieval

Question 2

Mental Time Travel

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Answer 2

• reconstruction of past events (episodic memory)
• anticipation and construction of future events and scenarios (episodic future thinking)

Question 3

Episodic Autobiographical Memory

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Answer 3

• provides first person experiences like thoughts, feelings and sense
• enables reexperiencing of past events
• includes vivid mental imagery, therefore difficult for aphantasics

Question 4

Semantic Autobiographical Memory

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Answer 4

• component builds a stable core of self-knowledge and identity
• organised in a hierarchical structure going from broad to specifc events
• provides general facts and information when reconstructing