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episodic memory
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episodic memory
Neurology A 'cognitive' form of memory based on personal experience. See Memory.


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Episodic memories (memories of episodes) are stored in different brain areas from semantic memories (memories of facts).
Supporting current pedagogical approaches with neuroscience research by Hung, David / Journal of Interactive Learning Research
The information in episodic memories can contradict the information in semantic memories, because children build their generalizations on selective episodes and on other significant input (such as how a parent interprets events).
Memory access to our earliest influences by Zimberoff, Diane / Journal of Heart Centered Therapies
Context-rich, episodic memories require additional interventions by the hippocampus and adjacent neural tissue, they suggest.
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