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Renoult, Louis 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-0552 and Rugg, Michael
(2020)
An historical perspective on Endel Tulving's episodic-semantic distinction.
Neuropsychologia, 139.
ISSN 0028-3932
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Abstract
The distinction between episodic and semantic memory, proposed by Endel Tulving in 1972, remains a key concept in contemporary Cognitive Neuroscience. Here we review how this distinction evolved in Tulving`s writings over the years. Crucially, from 1972 onward, he argued that the two forms of memory were inter-dependent and that their interaction was an essential feature of normal episodic memory function. Moreover, later elaborations of the theory clearly proposed that these interactions formed the basis of normal declarative memory functioning. A later but crucial aspect of Tulving’s contribution was his stress on the importance of subjective experience, which, according to him, “should be the ultimate object of interest, the central aspect of remembering that is to be explained and understood”. We relate these and his numerous other ideas to current perspectives about the organization and function of human memory.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | autobiographical memory,autonoesis,brain activity,cognitive neuroscience,complementary learning-systems,chronesthesia,ecphory,episodic memory,frontal lobes,future thinking,long-term-memory,parietal lobe,prefrontal cortex,semantic memory,visual perspective |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2020 04:15 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2024 00:01 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73863 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107366 |
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