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Enhanced action control as a prior function of episodic memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2018

Philipp Rau  and
George Botterill
Philipp Rau
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7QB, United Kingdom. p.rau@sheffield.ac.uk g.botterill@sheffield.ac.uk https://sheffield.academia.edu/rau http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/profiles/botterill
George Botterill
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7QB, United Kingdom. p.rau@sheffield.ac.uk g.botterill@sheffield.ac.uk https://sheffield.academia.edu/rau http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/profiles/botterill
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Abstract

Improved control of agency is likely to be a prior and more important function of episodic memory than the epistemic-communicative role pinpointed by Mahr & Csibra (M&C). Taking the memory trace upon which scenario construction is based to be a stored internal model produced in past perceptual processing promises to provide a better account of autonoetic character than metarepresentational embedding.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e27
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