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Memory for specific events and episodes, connected to a particular context such as time, date, location, etc. including autobiographical memory.
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Episodic memory is differentiated from semantic memory (the knowledge of facts) as it includes “calling back into consciousness a…lost state that is then immediately recognized as something formerly experienced [1],” it allows for reliving of the original experience or for re-experiencing of the remembered event [2],” and can be “distinguished from knowledge of the past [2].”
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Tulving, E. (1983). Elements of episodic memory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Perner, J., Kloo, D., & Gornik, E. (2007). Memory development: theory of mind is part of re-experiencing experienced events. Infant and Child Development, 16, 471–490.
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Walrath, R. (2011). Episodic Memory. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_1018
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