Talk:Episodic memory

message: As episodes in human memory age, the temporal (time) information stored with them begins to fade and to be lost. Unless an episode is explicitly connected with a particular time, the time associated with it tends to become vague and non-specific. Two unconnected episodes that do not share a common element that would establish their particular order thus tend to become confused as to which came first. For example, a person might vividly remember certain experiences that happened long ago in college: going to the Junior Prom, and also going on a week-long bicycle/camping trip with some classmates. The year of the Junior Prom is easy to remember, because it was an explicit part of the episode. But perhaps not so with the bike trip. At some point, the person may not be able to remember whether the bike trip happened before or after the prom.
There is thus reason to believe, as is stated in the main article, that "episodic memories are refined into semantic memories over time. In this process, most of the episodic information about a particular event is generalized and the context of the specific events is lost."
--82.80.15.103 07:43, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episodic memory converted to semantic 

message: Our perception of the passage of time (whether it passes "slowly" or "quickly") may be connected with the operation of episodic memory and its gradual conversion into semantic memory.
It is possibile that we do not store information about the passage of time separately from information about the occurrence of events, but only in connection with the events themselves. Furthermore, our perception of the passage of time depends in some way on the stimulation of the events that we are experiencing. As a suggestion for one type of this phenomenon, "rich" stimulation may tend to form more complex and connected episodes than "poor" stimulation, and thus in a given amount of time, "rich" stimulation results in fewer (but elaborate) episodes, whereas "poor" stimulation results in more (but plain) episodes. Thus in this model, a given amount of time that is highly stimulating would result in fewer episodes than the same amount of time that is deficient in stimulation, and thus an hour of highly stimulating activity would be perceived at the time of its occurrence as passing faster than an hour of boredom. 
This suggests that all episodes are more-or-less equivalent in the amount of perceived time they represent. Furthermore, as less significant episodes are forgotten, and as episodic memory becomes converted to semantic memory, our direct perception of the passage of time tends to become lost. We may remember that, during a particular event, time seemed to drag on and on, but we are remembering a note about a perception rather than the pereption itself. Overall, the tendency is to perceive that time seems to be going by awfully fast. The older we get, the fewer are the episodes significant enough to remember and the less capable we are of forming memories anyway -- and thus the faster time seems to go.
--82.80.15.103 08:09, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Spared remote memory in hippocampal patients suggest that memory is indeed eventually removed from the hippocampal system (and, in HM at least, from the medial temporal lobe in general). While the brain may store every episode in order (at least the attended stimuli), there is no reason to believe the memories remain in episodic form--if we didn't forget, most students would get better grades in school. Anecdotal evidence from claimed near-death experiences is insufficient to add this claim to the article. In fact, I'm not sure what your point is in writing this here. digfarenough (talk) 21:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perception of the Passage of Time 

message: we are a bit dustrustful of this classification. Declarative memo, by definition ('that can be declared') has propositional format, i.e. it exists as, or can readily and accurately be described in, sentences of language. Now, how about facts from my personal life that are much finer-grain, i.e. they contain primarily imagistic (perceptual/sensory/phenomenal) content. These are nonpropositional and can only very crudely be rendered in a post-factum lignuistic description, always with a lot of 'je ne sais quoi' (you can try to describe it, but you know it exists within you not as sentences, but as sensory data - images, scents, etc.). Is there a separate classification for such a subset of memories? Regards, Ariosto 23:17, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episodic as part of declarative memo 

message: The Joseph et al. (2003) paper cited in the "Episodic Memory Damage" section in fact has nothing to do with episodic memory; it is a study of verbally-mediated working memory.  The sentence preceding this citation is overtly false.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.78.151 (talk) 08:35, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Citation in "Episodic Memory Damage" Section 

message: I'm the one who is proposing that Episodic learning be merged into this article. If no one responds in a week, I'll go ahead and merge, but if somebody does, I'll leave it up to you guys. --Call me Bubba (talk) 03:05, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're going to merge, could you check the references to verify that they actually use the term "episodic learning"?  "Episodic memory" is a commonly used term, but I don't recall ever seeing "episodic learning" used anywhere. Looie496 (talk) 04:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

text: I created Episodic learning after seeing it on the list of requested articles, and yes, the first reference does describe episodic learning. I agree that it would be better as a section under episodic memory. If no one objects feel free to merge. Twirligig (talk) 04:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, weeks don't come this long where I am. We have a "month" over here. --➨♀♂Candlewicke  ST   22:57, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger Proposal 

message: Let's say that on Tuesday I have an appointment with the dentist and a week from tomorrow is my wife's birthday.  1. Is it my episodic memory that stores this information?  2. Is it my episodic memory that (hopefully) triggers the upcoming event to enter my consciousness when the event approaches?  You could argue that for every future event you anticipate, you either arranged it in the past or were told about it in the past, but typically when we remember an appointment we aren't remembering the details of having made the appointment, of being told the date of someone's birthday, etc.  It feels as though we have some sort of separate calendar function which is separate from the events that insert entries into it, doesn't it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmigoNico (talk • contribs) 18:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: 1. Yes, episodic memory stores that information, along with information about the circumstances in which you learned it.  2. Not sure.  It might depend on how the memory is triggered.  For what it's worth, there is evidence that people with total amnesia for episodic memory have great difficulty visualizing the future. Looie496 (talk) 07:37, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does Episodic Memory Include Memory of Future Events? 

message: The first reference doesn't seem to be correct.
I think it was conflated with this book.
	Introducing Psychology
http://scholar.google.com/scholar.bib?q=info:Mgv8RESTrAEJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&hl=en&as_sdt=0,33&ct=citation&cd=4
@book{schacter2009introducing,
  title={Introducing psychology},
  author={Schacter, Daniel L and Gilbert, Daniel T and Wegner, Daniel M},
  year={2009},
  publisher={Worth Publishers}
}
As a book published in 2011 by these authors does not exist.   Another book does and doesn't seem to include this reference on these pages.
Contemplative1 (talk) 17:33, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography Errors . Reference 

message: I vaguely recall reading that episodic memory does not begin until about the 3rd birthday.  Is there a reliable source for this?  This 3-year delay seems to be related to language development, and perhaps both develop together in children now, because language and episodic memory may have evolved together a million years ago.  Although other animals have Episodic-like memory, i.e. memory of what occurred, where, and when, humans have a richer memory of episodic content regarding how, why, who, which, and differences between what was planned/intended and what actually happened, in a form that can be communicated to other humans with spoken or written language.  This has great survival value, because it enables humans to gain knowledge from other humans of past events so that mistakes can be corrected, and to warn of possible future events to be averted, prevented, and planned for, or described, taught, and encouraged for mutual benefit, based on episodic memory of similar past events.  We need a reliable source that explains all of this. Greensburger (talk) 16:31, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age when episodic memory begins 

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message: It would be helpful to add in a section on how episodic memory can be tested, and which neuropsychological tests are utilized. There will be some crossover on testing between different memory types, and this might be addressed as well.   Pollira (talk) 20:17, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add in neuropsychological testing section 

message: I will be focusing on building the neural networks model in my personal sandbox. I will be focusing on finding reliable sources to add additional information to this section. I am looking to work towards defining how neural networks are interconnected and the function in which they play as a whole
Justin Jhatch22 (talk) 20:32, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neural Networks Model  

message: Isn't the statement .....
Episodic memory can be thought of as a "map" that ties together items in semantic memory.
the wrong way around? Surely it's semantic memory that ties together (or "maps") similar episodic memories, doesn't it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.151.210.84 (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship to semantic memory 

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