The last decade has seen dramatic technological and conceptual changes in research on
episodic memory and the brain. New technologies, and increased use of more naturalistic …

Results from recent studies of retrograde amnesia following damage to the hippocampal
complex of human and non-human subjects have shown that retrograde amnesia is extensive …

Declarative memory is usually described as consisting of two systems: semantic and episodic
memory. Between these two poles, however, may lie a third entity: personal semantics (PS)…

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to study brain regions implicated in
retrieval of memories that are decades old. To probe autobiographical memory, family …

It has been argued that the role of the hippocampus in memory is time‐limited: during a
period of memory consolidation, other brain regions such as the neocortex are said to acquire …

Data are reviewed from positron emission tomography studies of encoding and retrieval
processes in episodic memory. These data suggest a hemispheric encoding/retrieval …

Cognitive aging research documents reduced access to contextually specific episodic details
in older adults, whereas access to semantic or other nonepisodic information is preserved …

Although verbal fluency is a frequently used neuropsychological test, little is known about
the underlying cognitive processes. The authors proposed that 2 important components of …

The contribution of the parietal cortex to episodic memory is a fascinating scientific puzzle.
On the one hand, parietal lesions do not normally yield severe episodic-memory deficits; on …

… I thank Elana Moscovitch for drawing my attention to the relevance of Lively’s book. It is
significant that the narrator in the novel is very old [see Moscovitch & Winocur (1992a) on the …