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Episodic memory is a form of long-term memory that captures the details of past events that one has personally experienced. Along with semantic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory ...

Episodic Memory Episodic memory is a type of long-term, explicit memory. It’s your ability to consciously recall facts or details based on your firsthand experiences. These memories can be ...

The Unreliability of Episodic Memory A large body of literature has shown that episodic memories are highly prone to errors, distortions, and other imperfections (see e.g., Schacter, 1999).

Recognizing an image from the past is an example of an episodic memory. As an adult, these can take the form of remembering specific events, like watching a sports match or taking a vacation.

The analysis found that children with asthma had lower scores on the episodic memory task than children without the lung condition. In a smaller sample of 473 children who were followed for two years, ...

To study the birds’ episodic memory, Chettih and his colleagues built a special arena made of 128 small, artificial storage sites.