Space, Time, and Memory

Lynn Nadel,Sara Aronowitz

ISBN13: 9780192882547

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 22/05/2025

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations Memories are not organized by a single arbitrary dimension, such as mere association. Instead, many dimensions have been taken to be part of the structure of memory. Of these, space and time stand out: all personal experience can in principle be indexed by where and when specific events occurred, and both scientific evidence and common sense suggest that the way we relate different events together in memory draws on these dimensions. For instance, to remember what one ate for lunch last Thursday, one might call up a memory of where one was, or retrace the events of the day leading up to lunch. Some nuts-and-bolts questions arise immediately, starting with whether the spatial or the temporal dimension is primary. Or rather, do we rely on both equally? Do we represent them separately or jointly? But there are bigger questions with broad implications: What makes space and time such central structures in our cognitive world, and what is the conceptual nature of these structures? These questions are deeply related to one another, though they span multiple fields and methodologies, touching on philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. Space, Time, and Memory explores three key questions: first, the role of space and time as structures that organize memory, second, theories of the nature of memory itself that draw on space and time, and finally applications of questions about the structure of memory to debates about perception, decision-making, and artifical intelligence.
1: Ian Phillips: What has episodic memory got to do with space and time? 2: Nora S. Newcombe & Kim V. Nguyen: Developmental Sequences Constrain Models of the Mind 3: György Buzsáki and János Végh: Space, time and memory 4: John O'Keefe: The Hippocampal Cognitive Map and Episodic Memory 5: Sara Aronowitz and Lynn Nadel: Space, and not Time, Provides the Basic Structure of Memory 6: Sarah Robins: A Place for the Memory Trace, 7: Charan Ranganath: Memory, Space, Time, and the Hippocampus 8: Michael E. Hasselmo, Jennifer C. Robinson, Patrick A. LaChance, Jacob H. Wilmot, L. Kelton Wilmerding, Samantha Malmberg, Mahir Patel, Quan Do, G. William Chapman: Coding of space and time for memory function 9: Felipe De Brigard: Simulationism and Memory Traces 10: EJ Green: Can We Perceive the Past? 11: Alexandria Boyle: Experience Replay Algorithms and the Function of Episodic Memory 12: Ida Momennejad: Memory and Planning in Brains and Machines: Multiscale Predictive Representations
  • Cognitivism, cognitive theory
  • Learning
  • Professional & Vocational
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