Age-related cognitive changes often include difficulties in retrieving memories, particularly
those that rely on personal experiences within their temporal and spatial contexts (ie …

An event memory is a mental construction of a scene recalled as a single occurrence. It
therefore requires the hippocampus and ventral visual stream needed for all scene …

Despite a strong intuitive and theoretical tradition linking autobiographical memory and
sense of self, there are few coherent, testable models that exemplify how these constructs …

With time and experience, memories undergo a process of reorganization that involves
different neuronal networks, known as systems consolidation. The traditional view, as …

Aim This paper explores the challenges of interviewing people about sensitive topics. It uses
existing literature and the first author's experience of interviewing women traumatised by …

Trauma can profoundly affect the sense of self, where both cognitive and somatic
disturbances to the sense of self are reported clinically by individuals with posttraumatic …

Autobiographical memory, or memory for personal experiences, allows individuals to define
themselves and construct a meaningful life story. Decline of this ability, as observed in …

Autobiographical memories in our lives are critically dependent on temporal lobe structures.
However, the contribution of CA1 neurons in the human hippocampus to the retrieval of …

The self has been the topic of philosophical inquiry for centuries. Neuropsychological data
suggest that the declarative self can be fractionated into three functionally independent …

The critical attributes of episodic memory are self, autonoetic consciousness and
subjectively sensed time. The aim of this paper is to present a theoretical overview of our …