The Living in History (LiH) effect is a litmus test for the degree to which historical events reorganise autobiographical memory. The LiH effect was studied in two Lebanese samples: a Beiruti sample that lived in the epicentre of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and another group from the Bi'qa region who lived in an area that was indirectly exposed for most of the civil war but exper...

There is evidence that specificity of autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval is impaired by cortisol. However, it is unknown whether glucocorticoids differentially influence the retrieval of recent versus remote AMs. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of cortisol on AM retrieval, in terms of memory specificity, with respect to remoteness of the retrieved memo...

BACKGROUND Hippocampal formation (HF) volume and episodic memory performance are substantially heritable, but HF subregion heritability estimates and their possible shared genetic variance with episodic memory performance remain to be determined. METHODS AND FINDINGS This study provides heritability estimates for hippocampal subregions (e.g, Cornu Amonis, Subiculum, Parasubiculum, Molecular a...

The hippocampus plays a crucial role in the encoding and retrieval of episodic memory. In this issue of Neuron, Nakazawa and coworkers show that synaptic modification in hippocampal CA3 neurons is critical for immediate storage of information, a key feature of episodic memory.

The basic-systems approach (Rubin, 2005, 2006) states that autobiographical memory is supported by other cognitive systems and argues that autobiographical memories are constructed from interactions between cognitive systems, such as language, vision and emotion. Although deficiencies in one or more of the basic systems influence the properties of autobiographical memories, little is known abou...

Electrophysiology-based concealed information tests (CIT) try to determine whether somebody possesses concealed information about a crime-related item (probe) by comparing event-related potentials (ERPs) between this item and comparison items (irrelevants). Although the broader field is sometimes referred to as "memory detection," little attention has been paid to the precise type of underlying...

We investigated lifespan differences of confidence calibration in episodic memory, particularly the susceptibility to high-confidence errors within samples of children, teenagers, younger adults, and older adults. Using an associative recognition memory paradigm, we drew a direct link between older adults' associative deficit and high-confidence errors. We predicted that only older adults would...

Persson, J. 2015. Making Head or Tail of the Hippocampus. A Long-Axis Account of Episodic and Spatial Memory. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 114. 81 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9328-8. While episodic and spatial memory both depend on the hippocampus, opposite gender differences in these functions sugg...

The present study evaluated the influence of habitual sleep duration on episodic memory in a wakeful state. Episodic memory was assessed for auditory and visual processing pathways. A total of 96 medical students (53 male and 43 female, between the age group 18-23 years) accustomed to different sleep durations volunteered in the tests. The tests included auditory free recall of 10 common words,...

This article considers two recent lines of research concerned with the construction of imagined or simulated events that can provide insight into the relationship between memory and decision making. One line of research concerns episodic future thinking, which involves simulating episodes that might occur in one's personal future, and the other concerns episodic counterfactual thinking, which i...