We propose that older adults' ability to retrieve episodic autobiographical events, although
often viewed through a lens of decline, reveals much about what is preserved and prioritized …

We provide a comprehensive review describing research on the qualitative representational
nature of older adults' episodic memories. Our review considers several broad theoretical …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

Pattern separation, or the process by which highly similar stimuli or experiences in memory
are represented by non-overlapping neural ensembles, has typically been ascribed to …

The ability to remember associations among components of an event, which is central to
episodic memory, declines with normal aging. In accord with the specificity principle of …

How accurate is memory? Although people implicitly assume that their memories faithfully
represent past events, the prevailing view in research is that memories are error prone and …

Recent papers have emphasized the primary role of cellular information management in
biological and evolutionary development. In this framework, intelligent cells collectively …

Age-related deficits in associative episodic memory have been widely reported, but recent
research suggests that some of these deficits occur for highly specific but not gist …

A predominant view of perirhinal cortex (PRC) and postrhinal/parahippocampal cortex
(POR/PHC) function contends that these structures are tuned to represent objects and …

Abstract Effects of divided attention (DA) during encoding on later memory performance are
widely documented. However, the precise nature of these effects on underlying memory …