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The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory.

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Rubin, DC
December 2006

Behavior, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging suggest that episodic memories are constructed from interactions among the following basic systems: vision, audition, olfaction, other senses, spatial imagery, language, emotion, narrative, motor output, explicit memory, and search and retrieval. Each system has its own well-documented functions, neural substrates, processes, structures, and kinds of schemata. However, the systems have not been considered as interacting components of episodic memory, as is proposed here. Autobiographical memory and oral traditions are used to demonstrate the usefulness of the basic-systems model in accounting for existing data and predicting novel findings, and to argue that the model, or one similar to it, is the only way to understand episodic memory for complex stimuli routinely encountered outside the laboratory.

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December 2006

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SAGE Publications

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  • Social Psychology
  • 52 Psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Rubin, D. C. (2006). The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00017.x
Rubin, David C. “The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory.,” December 2006. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00017.x.
Rubin, David C. The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory. SAGE Publications, Dec. 2006. Dspace, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00017.x.
Rubin DC. The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory. SAGE Publications; 2006 Dec;

DOI

Publication Date

December 2006

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 52 Psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology