On the origins of autobiographical memory.

نویسندگان

  • Ian Q Whishaw
  • Douglas G Wallace
چکیده

Tolving argues that one form of explicit memory, autobiographical memory is uniquely human and has no nonhuman animal antecedents. We suggest that a form of memory used by humans and nonhuman animals, dead reckoning, shares a common limbic structure, including the cingulate cortex and hippocampus, and involves similar processes in recognition of self-action. Thus, it may be homologous to, and an antecedent of, autobiographical memory in humans.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Behavioural brain research

دوره 138 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003