EPISODIC MEMORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does episodic memory mean? 

• EPISODIC MEMORY (noun)
  The noun EPISODIC MEMORY has 1 sense:

1. memory for episodes in your own life

  Familiarity information: EPISODIC MEMORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPISODIC MEMORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Memory for episodes in your own life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

episodic memory; personal memory

Hypernyms ("episodic memory" is a kind of...):

long-term memory; LTM (your general store of remembered information)

 Context examples 

Each of the 64 items on the test was presented only once to ensure that the targets, but not the foils, were represented by an episodic memory.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)

The night-to-night variability in the older study participants had a major impact on their performance in tests aimed at evaluating episodic memory, said Audrey Duarte, principal investigator in the Memory and Aging Lab at the Georgia Tech School of Psychology.

(Study ties poor sleep to reduced memory performance in older adults, National Science Foundation)

In contrast, they saw no evidence of coordinated activity between the MTL and the cortical areas of the brain that control our movements and sensations, suggesting the simultaneous activity they observed may be related to episodic memory.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)