Episodic memory – From brain to mind

Hippocampus has a special issue on episodic memory and how it is studied. It is a comprehensive and thought provoking gathering of some of the front-end researchers in this field. Among the claims made in this issue, one can mention Ferbinteanu, Kennedy and Shapiro’s claim that

autonoetic experience is a feature of human consciousness rather than an obligatory aspect of memory for episodes, and that episodic memory is reconstructive and thus its key features can be modeled in animal behavioral tasks that do not involve either autonoetic consciousness or one-trial learning

Hoz and Wood argue that

mental time travel is the key feature of episodic memory and that it should take a form, in the awake animal, similar to the replay of behavioral patterns of activity that has been observed in hippocampus during sleep

Smith and Mizumori suggest that

place fields [in the hippocampus] reflect a more general context processing function of the hippocampus. Hippocampal context representations could serve to differentiate contexts and prime the relevant memories and behaviors. Since episodic memories, by definition, include information about the time and place where the episode occurred, contextual information is a necessary prerequisite for any episodic memory

The special issue can be found here, and the TOC below

Hippocampus
Volume 16, Issue 9, 2006.

Online ISSN: 1098-1063
Print ISSN: 1050-9631
(Special Issue: Place Cells and Episodic Memory. Issue Edited by Sheri J.Y. Mizumori.)

Copyright © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company

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1. Hippocampal place fields: A neural code for episodic memory? Sheri J.Y. Mizumori http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112736812/ABSTRACT Pages: 691-703
2. Episodic memory – From brain to mind Janina Ferbinteanu, Pamela J. Kennedy, Matthew L. Shapiro http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112750989/ABSTRACT Pages: 704-715
3. Dissociating the past from the present in the activity of place cells Livia de Hoz, Emma R. Wood http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112741060/ABSTRACT Pages: 716-729
4. Hippocampal place cells, context, and episodic memory David M. Smith, Sheri J.Y. Mizumori http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112748594/ABSTRACT Pages: 730-742
5. Behavioral correlates of the distributed coding of spatial context Michael I. Anderson, et al. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112752541/ABSTRACT Pages: 743-754
6. Hippocampal place cells: The “where” of episodic memory? Clifford Kentros http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112749482/ABSTRACT Pages: 755-764
7. Hippocampal place cells: Parallel input streams, subregional processing, and implications for episodic memory James J. Knierim, Inah Lee, Eric L. Hargreaves http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112737730/ABSTRACT Pages: 765-774
8. Fast rate coding in hippocampal CA3 cell ensembles Stefan Leutgeb, Jill K. Leutgeb, Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112741061/ABSTRACT Pages: 775-784
9. Hippocampal and cortical place cell plasticity: Implications for episodic memory Loren M. Frank, Emery N. Brown, Garrett B. Stanley http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112752538/ABSTRACT Pages: 785-794
10. Organization of hippocampal cell assemblies based on theta phase precession Andrew P. Maurer, Stephen L. Cowen, Sara N. Burke, Carol A. Barnes, Bruce L. McNaughton http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112752537/ABSTRACThttp://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112736811/ABSTRACT Pages: 795-808
11. Evolution of declarative memory Joseph R. Manns, Howard Eichenbaum