Episodic and semantic content of memory and imagination: A multilevel analysis.

ABSTRACT: Autobiographical memories of past events and imaginations of future scenarios comprise both episodic and semantic content. Correlating the amount of "internal" (episodic) and "external" (semantic) details generated when describing autobiographical events can illuminate the relationship between the processes supporting these constructs. Yet previous studies performing such correlations were limited by aggregating data across all events generated by an individual, potentially obscuring the underlying relationship within the events themselves. In the current article, we reanalyzed datasets from eight studies using a multilevel approach, allowing us to explore the relationship between internal and external details within events. We also examined whether this relationship changes with healthy a

SUBMITTER: Devitt AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5702280 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature