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Autonoesis and reconstruction in episodic memory: Is remembering systematically misleading?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2018

Kourken Michaelian
Kourken Michaelian*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. kourken.michaelian@otago.ac.nz http://phil-mem.org/
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Abstract

Mahr & Csibra (M&C) view autonoesis as being essential to episodic memories and construction as being essential to the process of episodic remembering. These views imply that episodic memory is systematically misleading, not because it often misinforms us about the past, but rather because it often misinforms us about how it informs us about the past.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e22
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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