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Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Subjective Experience of Remembering

Simons, Jon S.; Ritchey, Maureen; Fernyhough, Charles

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Authors

Jon S. Simons

Maureen Ritchey



Abstract

The ability to remember events in vivid, multisensory detail is a significant part of human experience, allowing us to relive previous encounters and providing us with the store of memories that shape our identity. Recent research has sought to understand the subjective experience of remembering, that is, what it feels like to have a memory. Such remembering involves reactivating sensory-perceptual features of an event and the thoughts and feelings we had when the event occurred, integrating them into a conscious first-person experience. It allows us to reflect on the content of our memories and to understand and make judgments about them, such as distinguishing events that actually occurred from those we might have imagined or been told about. In this review, we consider recent evidence from functional neuroimaging in healthy participants and studies of neurological and psychiatric conditions, which is shedding new light on how we subjectively experience remembering.

Citation

Simons, J. S., Ritchey, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2022). Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Subjective Experience of Remembering. Annual Review of Psychology, 73, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-030221-025439

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Sep 29, 2021
Publication Date 2022-01
Deposit Date Nov 1, 2021
Publicly Available Date Nov 1, 2021
Journal Annual Review of Psychology
Print ISSN 0066-4308
Electronic ISSN 1545-2085
Publisher Annual Reviews
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 73
DOI https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-030221-025439

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