Autobiographical memories are never isolated episodes; they are embedded in a network
that is continually updated and prediction driven. We present autobiographical memory as a …

Episodic representations can be entertained either as “remembered” or “imagined”—as
outcomes of experience or as simulations of such experience. Here, we argue that this …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

Storytelling represents a key element in the creation and propagation of culture. Three main
accounts of the adaptive function of storytelling include (a) manipulating the behavior of the …

Psychological distance is “a subjective experience that something is close or far away from
the self, here, and now”(Trope & Liberman 2010, p. 440). This research investigates heritage …

Emotions have a life beyond the immediate eliciting situation, as they tend to be shared with
others by putting the experience in narrative form. Narrating emotions helps us to express …

The paper develops an account of minimal traces devoid of representational content and
exploits an analogy to a predictive processing framework of perception. As perception can …

Stories are central to our world. We form our families, our communities, and our nations
through stories. It is through stories of our everyday experiences that each of us constructs …

I propose a model that places episodic, semantic, and other commonly studied forms of
memory into the same conceptual space. The space is defined by three dimensions required …

Philosophers of memory have approached the relationship between memory and
imagination from two very different perspectives. Advocates of the causal theory of memory …