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 ...

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 ...

Preston P. Thakral earned his Ph.D. in psychology and neuroscience from Boston College. He is a cognitive neuroscientist who aims to understand how the brain supports episodic memory (i.e., memory for ...

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 ...

the current framework in the psychology field for this process divides episodic memory into two different branches: recollection, which is our ability to recall a memory in its entirety ...

A computational model explains how place cells in the hippocampus can be recruited to form any kind of episodic memory, even when there's no spatial component. Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists ...

(Put very simply: Episodic memory is long-term memories of your own life and personal experiences, while working memory is short-term memories needed to complete individual tasks at a time.) ...

Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute ... They developed a 3-day episodic memory task with separate encoding, recollection, and retrieval phases to get to their primary hypothesis.

This important work substantially advances our understanding of episodic memory by proposing a biologically plausible mechanism through which hippocampal barcode activity enables efficient memory ...

Tompary has received grants from the National Institutes of Health and published in journals including Neuron, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Neuroscience, and PNAS. Dr.